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THE FUTURE 

Of THE 

UNITED STATES 

BY 

- DIVINE APPOINTMENT 

AND THE 

DOOM OF MONARCHY, 



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PREDICTED IN REVELATION 



BY REV. G>. B. WRIGHT. 



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1887. 
ELIJAH GAY, PUBLISHER. 

LOS AN&BLES, CAL. 



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DEDICATION. 



TT7E dedicate this little volume to the working class ot 
VV America. For — to them we owe the liberty we enjoy; 
they have stood by our country in every instance ; they have 
raised the provisions to feed their brethren in the field ; and 
at one and the same time fought her battles, tilled the soil, and 
are ever ready to bear their breasts to the bullets when her 
free institutions are in danger. God bless them, and forever 
give into their hand the country they so richly deserve. 

THE AUTHOR. 



Entered accordirs to act of Congress in the year 1887 by D. B. WRIGHT in 
the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 



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6 

INTRODUCTION 



That either the monarchical form of government, or thft 
Republican form, must become universal on earth, is a self- 
evident truth. We Americans see very readily that the free. 
Democratic, representative form of government, of which we 
are the great successful representative, must and will supplant 
all monarchy and become universal. And it begins to be seen 
and felt by the crowned heads of Europe and the more enlight- 
ened and thoughtful of their subjects. The Empress Eugenie, 
several years ago, ventured the prophecy that in fifty years 
there would not be a crowned head in Europe. And an event 
that is so readily sanctioned by reason, and is such a natural 
and unavoidable sequence of our rapidly advancing civilization, 
and, above all, is plainly taught of God in the predictions of 
prophecy, must and will be among the events of subsequent 
history, and cannot be very far distant. The history of the 
world is but the history of God's dealings with the nations, and 
prophecy is but the history of nations pre-written. 

Now, we claim in this unassuming book that God has a 
grand and glorious future for our nation, one that will make 
the heart of every true citizen swell with patriotic joy, and 
cause all lovers of Bible democracy in every land to rejoice 
with us. And in accomplishing it God will not use the great 
things of the world, great in the estimation of men, or the wise 
things of men. " But God hath chosen the foolish things of 
the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak 
things of the world to confound the things which are mighty: 
and base things of the world, and things which are despised, 
hath God chosen; yea, and things which are not, to bring to 
nought things that are." (I. Cor., 1 — 27.) 



INTRODUCTION. 



We announce here in the beginning of our book that God 
intends to accomplish the great future of our nation through 
the instrumentality of the laboring classes. 

God has always claimed the poor of this world as his own 
peculiar inheritance. When his Son was in the world it was 
not the learned, the rich, and the great, or the officials in either 
church or state that received him, but the " common people 
heard him gladly." 

This book claims that God's ancient nationality, the Jewish 
Republic in the wilderness, and finally established in the land 
of Canaan, was a type of which our nation is the antetype, he 
established that nation to prefigure our glorious nation in the 
"time of the end." 

And when he established that nation he did not employ the 
wealth and power, and influence of kings and heroes and states- 
men, etc., but he took a band of degraded, ignorant slaves, 
laboring in a brick yard in Egypt under task-masters; non<- 
could be found poorer, or weaker, or in a more hopeless con- 
dition, and the first dash he made with them he shook proud 
Pharoah's throne to the dust, and nearly destroyed the most 
powerful empire in the world. 

God uses only those things that are put in his hands freely 
and voluntarily to be used according to his will. Those pos- 
sessed of wealth or power of any kind will not do this, but the 
poor of all ages have ever lifted their hands to heaven and 
prayed: "Our Father lead us." 

God intended in raising up this nation to establish a nation 
in which the elective franchise should be in the hands of the 
laboring classes, and that the masses should rule, and not a 
hereditary aristocracy as in Europe, nor an aristocracy built 
upon a monied monopoly as in America, for it is a well known 
fact that in our glorious " land of the free," a monied monopoly 
6eeks to throttle our government, and we call upon the working 
men of America to wield that mighty weapon which God has 



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placed in our fingers — the ballot — take to yourselves that 
mighty power, and rule this nation as God has intended you 
should. 

We asked an ex-senator not long since what would he the end 
of this monied monopoly that was so rapidly gathering strength 
in our nation, and he replied, that it was the opinion of most 
men that it would end in the destruction of life and property. 
Well, now there is no need of that; if you will take to your- 
selves your right and your power to rule this nation before it 
s rested from you. No people have a right to resort to severe 
means while they hold in their grasp the elective franchise; 
when that is rested from them, then death to tyrants in any 
form is justifiable; that is why we sympathize with the poor 
people of Russia who are writhing beneath the iron heel of des- 
potism. They have not the omnipotent ballot or if they have 
any power in that direction it is very suspiciously and vigil- 
antly guarded, and neutralized by the few that, in Russia, seem 
determined cost what it will, to rule the many; that magnani- 
mous few that ever seeks to rule the many have always been 
found in every age and in all lands, even in our beloved 
America. 

Now, my countrymen, suffer this little hortatory as an intro- 
duction to our book, and put your ballot where it will tell for 
you and your children; where it will tell for liberty of the press, 
freedom of speech, and freedom of conscience. 

We shall now address ourselves to the task of showing God's 
hand in our rise, growth, and glorious future that awaits us, 
and also His direct interposition in the overthrow and utter 
annihilation of monarchy on the earth. 



PREFACE. 



We do not claim to be a discoverer. The honor of the dis- 
covery of the following theory is, we think, due to the late Dr. 
Baldwin. We give his views in his own language, or nearly 
so, but we do not follow him strictly in our own views. We 
take him only in the main features. While we readily acknowl- 
edge that without him we could not see as far as he did, as we 
are privileged to stand upon his shoulders, we ought to see 
farther. We take up this g.reat subject because those who 
rank among the scholars of our day, hence have the power of 
research necessary to the great task, and ought to take it up 
and give the ministry as well as the laity some definite theory 
of prophecy, refuse to do so. 

But they might reply to my friendly censure by telling me 
that I can afford to "tackle" it, as I have all to gain and 
nothing to lose, while they have all to lose and nothing to gain. 

But we are encouraged in this bold adventure, feeling the 
blessing of God upon us in it, and emboldened by the fact that 
that time promised to Daniel when the Prophecies should be 
unsealed, has come, " the time of the end," not end of time, as 
some read; that would have been useless to have given to the 
world of mankind a revelation that was not intended to be 
understood until it was too late for mankind to be profited by 
it. Such a thought is too dishonoring to God. Nay, leave it 
to the heathen oracles to surround themselves with an imag- 
inary mystery, well suited to awe the marvelousness of human 
nature. But God says His revelation was sent as a light into 
the world, and " that no prophecy of the Scriptures is of any 
private interpretation, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, 
for correction, for instruction in righteousness." A proph < y 



PREFACE. 



given in one dispensation of time, to transpire during a future 
period or dispensation of time, is sometimes sealed, or inten- 
tionally hidden from us, until the beginning of that period, 
when it becomes the duty of all God's enlightened people to 
discern them, and even the unconverted world that lieth in 
darkness is held culpable for not recognizing God's hand in the 
unfolding events. 

While God gives the Prophecies in such occult language as 
to not be understood until they begin to be fulfilled, or, in other 
words, until they are unsealed, he' does hold us culpable for 
not discerning them when that time arrives. One of the most 
severe rebukes which Christ dealt to the people of his day was 
for their not discerning the fulfillment of the Prophecies, then 
being fulfilled before their eyes. 

We claim for the fo lowing theory that it systematizes the 
Prophecies. It will be readily discerned by the Bible student 
that the true theory would of necessity throw all prophecy into 
a beautiful and harmonious system, and that no other theory 
could, hence the leading principle to be laid down, in the inter- 
pretation of prophecy, is that it must systematize and harmonize 
the Prophets. Error cannot be systematized; truth only can. 
All interpretations must coincide with the literal and evan- 
gelical doctrines of the Bible. It is a true maxim that "the 
perfect coincidence of events with prophecy is infallible prooi 
of the fulfillment of prophecy." Jesus held closely to this 
principle, strictly fulfilling all that the prophets had predicted 
of Him, and it is in recognition of this principle that we believe 
in Him as the true Messiah. 

Many predictions refer to two, and sometimes more, events, 
as in the case of Matt* ii., 17, 18. If we look at Jer. xxxi. 15 > 
we will find those words applied to altogether another and dif- 
ferent event, as Dr. Adam Clark plainly shows; also see Adam 
Clark on Isaiah, lxi. 1, where he shows the double application 
more forcibly as Jesus makes the application himself. It is tu 



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peculiarity of prophecy to give " here a little and there a little," 
hence one sentence will follow another, as wide apart in their 
application as the first and second advent of Christ. As in^ 
Luke iv. 18, there our blessed Saviour " went into the syna- 
gogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read," and he read 
from the book of the Prophet Isaiah, and he stopped reading 
in the middle of a sentence. Now, it is evident to our mind 
that the omitted part of the sentence applies to his second 
coming to our world. He closed the book and sat down, and 
said unto them: "This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your 
ears." When He comes again will He not finish the sentence 
with propriety ? 



THE UNITED STATES IN THE RESTORATION. 



All the intellectual creatures of God throughout the universe 
have a dual nature; a spiritual nature that constitutes them 
religious beings, and a social nature that constitutes them 
political beings; hence God's great universal empire is in 
keeping with these two principles, and is of a dual nature. 
These two constitutional qualities in man "have resulted 
universally in some kind of religion and some kind of civil 
government. In a state of purity and perfection, as with the 
angels in Heaven, or with man as he was first created, this has 
resulted in a pure religion and a perfect civil government. At 
the fall of man, the rejection of the true God as monarch in 
both of these departments, led to the wildest disorder and 
universal misery. Probably the greatest corruption visible to 
mortals is brought to view in human governments. 

A great mind has said: "It is a truth, established by uni- 
versal experience, that all civil governments among mankind 
have conformed in principle and practice to the genius of the 
prevailing religion of the people." Religion has controlled the 
politics of the world in all ages. If the religion has been mild 
so has been the civil government; if it has been bloody and 
despotic, so has been the civil government; if it has been lib- 
eral and enlightened, so has been thu civil policy. This has 
resulted from a law of nature, by which inferior things are 
controlled by superior; and as the spiritual nature of man 
exercises supreme power over his conduct in his individual 
capacity, so does it in his aggregated state. To subdue man 
it was, therefore, necessary to subjugate his spiritual nature 
first, to regenerate him as a religious race, and then his polit- 
ical regeneration would follow inevitably. A physical victory 



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might have resulted in a moment from the weight of Omnipo- 
tence, but a moral victory could not thus speedily be obtained 
from the eternal and immutable and self-existent principle of 
moral agency. As it is the natural result of all kinds of* 
religion to form its subjects into some kind of civil govern- 
ment, so it has been with the religion of the Bible. 

The Jewish Church, as soon as it extricated itself from bond- 
age, formed itself into a nationality. That nationality, on 
account of the backsliding and infidelity of the people, came 
to an end, as it had been predicted by their prophets. At the 
same time they predicted its rise again and establishment on 
earth as the Israel of God to endure forever. There is noth- 
ing more forcibly predicted in the word of inspiration than the 
restoration of Israel. All the prophets have dwelt upon it and 
spoke of its future glory in the most extravagant language, and 
use the loftiest types* and symbols, from Daniel to St. John, the 
Apocalypse, and tSi Christian world has ever looked and is 
still looking for its ri&e. Now, Israel restored is to be a nation- 
ality naturally arising c at of God's recognized Church. The 
Christian Church claims to be that Church. We have come in 
the place of the Jewish Church. As the Apostle Paul says : 
" The Jews being the natural vine, and being broken off' 
through unbelief, we gentiles, a wild olive tree, are grafted 
onto the natural stock." But he says also: " There is no dif- 
ference between Jew and Gentile; we are all counted in unbe- 
lief and are all received through faith, whether Jew or Gentile, 
for he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly, neither is that cir- 
cumcision which is .outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew, 
which is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, 
in the spirit and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men 
but of God. So it is Chistian Israel or, in other words, Christ's 
Israel, that is to be restored, but the Jews are to be compre- 
hended in it, for I truly believe our Hebrew brethren will yet 
come to see and believe that Jesus Christ was and is the true 



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Messiah which was promised by their Prophets, and they, 
through faith will be received of God the same as we Gentiles 
are received by faith, and they, com'Jng with that true inward 
circumcision of the heart, they will bear a grand and glorious 
part in the glorious restoration of God's Israel. 

But, in order to recognize God's Israel when it is restored 
and appears among the nations of the earth, we must know 
what kind of a nationality it will be, what kind of a govern- 
ment it will have. You will all see at a glance that there 
never was and never can be but two kinds of government. 
According to the constitution of man, there can be but two 
kinds of civil or spiritual government. All governments must 
either be republics or monarchies. There may be ©various 
kinds of each, but there is no harmonious medium kind, nor 
can there be. There may be absolute, limited, constitutional 
or hereditary monarchies, but they all agree in asserting or 
practicing the doctrine that the right of governing does not 
exist in the consent of the governed. There may be autocratic, 
democratic, representative and confederate republics, but they 
all agree there is no right of government except by the 
expressed consent of the governed. These two can never exist 
in a blended state harmoniously, because their principles are 
essentially and originally antagonistic. Now, it is equally 
plain that God's Israel, restored to nationality, must be a den - 
ocratic republic. 

First, because republican principles are the natural out- 
growth of Christianity. Wherever Christianity is received into 
the human heart, and the man becomes imbued with its spirit, 
civil and religious liberty are at once felt to be the great bless- 
ings of man on earth. Again, nothing but a republic can be in 
keeping with the great law of love, as taught in the Gospel 
and throughout the Bible. " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 
with all thy soul and strength and thy neighbor as thyself." 
This great law of God, the dual law of love supreme to God and 



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equal love of neighbors, is justly called the great constitutional 
law of the universe, and the Decalogue, based upon it, is but 
the constitutional law of a single province of God's empire, as 
in our world. This great law of love to neighbor as to self, is 
a law conferring equal rights among all citizens of the same 
government. It is diametrically opposed to human legitimacy, 
p' >acy, and absolutism. It is not conformable to hereditary 
a. .stocracy, nor can it be; it is democratic, purely, and places 
all citizens of the same country upon a dead level as to right to 
rule, and confers exclusive favors upon none. God is, accord- 
ing to it the only one that has a divine right to exercise 
kingship, and He is, by consequence, opposed to all human 
monarchy and hates it as a feature of hell. In the first book 
of Samuel, 8th chapter, we have the opinion of God and Israel 
about kings, and it is one of great repugnance on God's part 
and repentance on Israel's. Israel asked Samuel to make 
them a king, but he was displeased with the proposition and 
prayed to God about it, and God replied to him, " they have 
not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not 
reign over them. Now, therefore, hearken unto their voice, yet 
protest solemnly and shew them the manner of the king that 
shall reign over them." After a king was chosen, God sig- 
nified his displeasure by a terrible thunder storm in wheat 
harvest, and the people were greatly terrified, for Samuel said, 
"I shall call unto the Lord, and He shall send thunder and 
rain that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is 
great which ye have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking 
you a king," and the people said unto Samuel, " pray for thy 
servants unto the Lord thy God that we die not, for we have 
added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king." 

)It is evident that God considers a human monarchy as 
exceedingly sinful, and as standing in direct hostility to Him- 
self, and he has but little patience with it. It is also obvious 
that in the recovery of the world to good government, in the 






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progress of Christianity, that human monarchy will share no 
part nor lot in the new organization. God is, therefore, hostile 
to human monarchy, because the system is iniquitous in prin- 
ciple, and he will destroy it because of its wicked nature. 

If you reply, " the powers that be are ordained of God," we 
answer that this does not proye monarchy correct in principle, 
for God uses monarchy as he does other curses, for the sake of 
chastising evil people. Thus the king of Babylon punished the 
Tyrians, and Cyrus punished Babylon at God's instigation, and 
wicked nations need tyrants to punish them for their vice. 
God said: " 0, Israel, I will be thy king. I gave thee a king 
in my anger, and took him away in my wrath." Monarchy is, 
therefore, a curse added to a vicious people, who are unworthy 
of freedom. In the spiritual and political redemption of the 
world, it therefore follows that monarchy must be overthrown. 
God permits human monarchies to exist, and he always has a 
purpose in it, but all the governments He has established 
among men have been of the democratic-republican form. 
The government of the ancient Jews, their first government, 
the one God organized for them, was a theocratic democracy. 
Now, the Hebrew system was a typical one throughout, in both 
Church and State, and Israel restored to nationality, that 
nation which should arise in the world and endure forever, and 
should develop into the millennial kingdom, and to which we 
are told Christ is to come, is to be its ante-type. 

All who read the Bible know that this nationality is une- 
quivocally promised to Israel in the Christian era, or latter day. 
Now, the United States, being a late and extraordinary Chris- 
tian people, arising late in the Christian era, we enquire may 
it not be the veritable nationality of the Prophets. If it coin- 
cides with all the great characteristics predicted of a Christian 
nationality, then all doubt must end, and our country, says 
Mr. Baldwin, "rise into an importance and sublimity abso- 
lutely overwhelming." And this is what we propose to show 



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beyond a successful contradiction: We propose to show in 
these papers that this great nation is the one predicted by the 
Prophets, and is the great millennial kingdom in embryo. 

We have said that the Hebrew Church and State were the 
type of which the Church and State, in the restoration of Israel 
to nationality, were to be the ante-type. About 300 years after 
the Jewish Church started in Abraham, it went into bondage 
in Egypt, and through Joseph was connected with the throne; 
and about 300 years after the Christian Church was estab- 
lished, it went into bondage by being connected with the throne 
of the Roman empire. As the Jewish Church came out of 
Egyptian bondage, crossed a sea and established a nationality 
in a wilderness, so the Christian Church came out of spiritual 
bondage in Europe., the Union of Church and State, and crossed 
a sea and established a nationality in a wilderness. 

As many people in the American colonies were not pious, 
and yet approved of the liberty taught by Christianity, so many 
of the Hebrews were unbelievers in the religion of Moses, and 
yet approved and contended for the justness of constitutional 
liberty. Those who imagine that ante-typical Israel was to be 
composed of pure and holy men altogether, are greatly mis- 
taken. On this principle, the Hebrew Church, as a type, 
would have required that ever} member of the ante-typical 
or Christian Church should have been holy. As the Church 
of typical Israel (Hebrew nation) possessed true doctrine, 
though many who belonged to it were impure, so the common- 
wealth of ante-typical Israel (Christianity in America) pos- 
sesses the true doctrine of human government, though many 
.vho enjoy its benefits are not true Christians. Many Chris- 
tians get a later period blended with the rise of Israel; they 

sad that in the restoration all shall be taught of the Lord and 
ill] shall be holy, etc.; but if they would read a little more 
fully, they would perceive that this is not said of the rise 
of Israel, it is of a later period. 



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In the end of time the angels shall gather out of the govern- 
ment of ante-typical Israel, or " out of the kingdom, all things 
that offend, and them that do iniquity." 

As there were twelve tribes of Israel, and Joseph's tribe was 
divided, making thirteen, so William Penn had two colonies 
ceded to him, making just thirteen colonies in the restoration.* 

The Hebrew Confederacy was organized into a more perfect 
union alter the exodus, by adopting a written democratic con- 
stitution, and so the Confederate colonies after the war of inde- 
pendence, in order to form a more perfect union, adopted a 
written, representative, democratic, federative constitution. 
The Hebrew constitution was submitted to the tribes for 
acceptance and ratification, and so was the American constitu- 
tion. It is not a little remarkable that the Hebrew and Amer- 
ican constitutions are the only two written ones ever known to 
have been adopted at the birth of any nationality prior to 1776. 

The Hebrew bondage, consequent upon the descent into Egypt 
coincides with the civil and spiritual bondage suffered by spirit- 
ual Israel after the union of Church and State. The exodus from 
typical Egypt, the crossing a sea, the overthrow of Pharoah's host, 
the general thanksgiving, the organization of a republican con- 
federacy of thirteen tribes, composed of three millions of people; 
the adoption of a written constitution by the tribes; the separa- 
tion of the Church and State departments; their freedom from 
control of one by the other; their laws of servitude and natural- 
ization, and their full organization and deliverance, under a 
noble leader in a wilderness, have all a complete correspondence 
in the United States of America. 

We will take up now some of the literal prophecies of the 



*Note Since these papers were written, we have seen in the public 
prints an account stating that they were about to bring the remains of 
William Penn to this country (ante-typical Israel) for interment. It 
would seem they were (withont intending so to do) trying to make ante- 
typical Israel answer its type in detail. Joseph's" bones had to be 
carefully *aken up out of Egypt l. d buried in Israel. 



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restoration of Israel. And that we may better understand the 
literal prophecies, we will do well to keep before us the fact 
that God revealed to his Prophets, the facts but not always the 
manner of them. Again He did not increase their scientific 
knowledge; they spoke of everything in keeping with the 
scientific knowledge of their day. 

The word of inspiration is so full of this class of prophecies, 
all so minutely pointing out our nation, that we hardly know 
where to begin. Perhaps it would be as well to commence with 
that prediction that so minutely describes the first settlement 
of this continent and the first inception of our nationality. 
This is recorded in Isaiah lx. 9 : " Surely the isles shall wait 
for me and the ships of Tarshish, first to bring thy sons from 
far." To understand a prophecy, we must underBtand in what 
age of the world it was uttered, and where the prophet stood 
when he uttered it. This prophecy was made in Palestine in 
western Asia, called Asia Minor. There were vast countries 
at that day supposed to exist in the Atlantic, west of Gib- 
raltar, and we are told by the best authority on history that 
they were termed "isles" by both Plato and Diodorus Siculus. 

You will please observe that the Prophet represents God as 
speaking, and speaking in the first person, in the first part of 
the Prophecy, " the isles shall wait for me," and then he speaks 
in the second person, " and the ships of Tarshish, first to bring 
thy sons from far," as though he would say, " the great conti- 
nent (lying on the other side of the then unexplored Atlantic) 
shall be kept for this purpose of which I am speaking. The 
hardy Norsemen may navigate its seas and touch upon its 
shores, but I shall frustrate every attempt to colonize. It 
' shall wait for me ' until a great Christian people shall need it 
to flee to from spiritual bondage and oppression, and start the 
embryo of my Christian Israel, and then, Israel, 'the ships of 
Tarshish ' shall be ' first to bring thy sons from far.' " 

It was a fact constantly kept in mind by all of Gods' 



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Prophets, even at that early day, that " westward the course of 
empire takes its ways." Hence the Prophet knew that the 
glorious nation, which he was describing, was in the west, and 
hence, according to his knowledge of geography, must be in the 
region known as the " isles." " The ships of Tarshish " — Tar- 
shish, as you all know, was the most ancient name of Spain. 
" Ships of Tarshish first." As prophecy notes only the greatest 
events of time, the term "first " must apply to some very im- 
portant and famous circumstance. America answers to the 
" waiting isles," and " the ships of Tarshish first to bring thy 
sons," to the discovery of America by the ships of Spain. It 
has always seemed very strange to i;s that America was not 
colonized before it was; that this great and rich continent, 
capable of sustaining such a vast population, should lie here 
unoccupied, and that, too, when the population of Europe was 
so dense and needed this continent to spread out in. But God 
plainly tells us in this Prophecy that He preserved it until His 
Christian Israel was strong enough and the time had arrived 
for them to take possession and build up a great Christian 
republic, which should develop into the millennial kingdom. 
" Surely the isles shall wait for me"; the words "surely" and 
" me " plainly show that He intentionally reserved it for His 
own purposes. Again, Ezek. xlvii. 13: "Ye shall inherit the 
land according to the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall 
have two portions." Joseph had two portions of old Israel, 
and thus there were thirteen tribes; and here we are informed 
that the same numler was to exist at the rise of Christian 
Israel. In the next chapter, the 48th, it is said these divisions 
shall lie side by side on a great sea, with their limits extend- 
ing from sea to sea, " from the east side unto the west side " 
of the continent. Now, is it not an astonishing fulfillment of 
prophecy, when we see the United States taking its rise in 
twelve colonies, and William Penn, like Joseph, having two 
ceded to him, making thirteen in all, and they lying side by 



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side on a great sea? But it is truly overpowering evidence of 
fulfillment, when we see that the language of the old charters 
was that they should " extend westward from sea to sea." 

Again, Isaiah ii. 2-3: "And it shall come to pass, in the 
last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be 
established in the top of the mountains and shall be exhalted 
above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it, and many 
people shall go and say, ' come ye and let us go up to the 
mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob.' " The 
term " mountain " in the prophecies invariably means govern- 
ment of some kind, either civil or ecclesiastical. The expres- 
sion "last days" signifies the Christian era; in this place it 
means the time from the rise of Christian Israel to the coming 
of Christ. The expression, " let us go up to the mountain (or 
nationality) of the Lord," intimates that its locality shall be 
elevated, and Lieutenant Maury shows that the whole earth, to 
reach us, is literally obliged to come up to us. We are on the 
physical head of the world. The gulf stream runs at the rate 
of four miles an hour across the whole breadth of the Atlantic. 
The expression, " all nations shall flow unto it," does not mean 
simply that emigrants shall come from all nations to it, as they 
do indeed to us, but that all nations, as nations, shall ulti- 
mately flow into it. It will eventually absorb all the king- 
doms of the world. As St. John says, in speaking of a later 
period of Israel restored, when the seventh trumpet sounded, 
" there were great voices in heaven saying, ' the kingdoms of 
this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His 
Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.' " 

Ezek. xxxviii. 8: "After many days thou shalt be visited; 
in the later years thou shalt come into the land that is brought 
back from the sword and is gathered out of many people against 
the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste; but it 
is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell* safely 
all of them." The expression, " after many days," is explained 



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in the next line by the expression, "in the latter years." He 
tells us in this verse that Christian Israel shall be restored in 
a land which has " been always waste." What land can an- 
swer to this but America, and the world has all been explored 
and there is no rich section lying waste of sufficient extent in 
which to found a great empire, as Israel restored must of neces- 
sity be. He says again, " it is brought forth out of the nations." 
This is not the same as the similar expression in this Prophecy, 
" gathered out of many people," and in the 12th verse of this 
chapter, " gathered out of many nations," an expression so fre- 
quently used by the Prophets in speaking of the nationality of 
Christian Israel, but this expression, "brought forth out of the 
nations," means that it had its rise outside of the nations, (not 
founded on other empires, etc.,) a characteristic of Christian 
Israel which runs through all the predictions of it. You will 
please note this fact in the further progress of this subject. 
That this is the intended meaning is further seen in the ex- 
pression that follows. "And they shall dwell safely all of 
them," means that their position in the earth shall be such 
that they shall not be easy of access to other nations, that their 
natural fastnesses shall be like the great Atlantic and Pacific. 
In the 8th verse, as we have seen, God was addressing Israel; 
in the 11th and 12th, He addresses "Gog." Gog and Magog 
are put for the enemies of Israel in the " latter days." "Gog" 
is derived from "Magog," and literally means a "prince" or 
" ruler." He is called a prince or head of many countries. 
They are both symbolic terms, and are meant to represent Is- 
rael's enemies. Hence God addresses him "thou" (Gog).^I 
would premise, before quoting this, that God is speaking of a 
later period than the rise of Israel. He is speaking here of the 
great battle of Armageddon, which ushers in the millennium. 
"Thou ^Gog) shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled 
villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, 
all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars 



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nor gates; to turn thy hand upon the desolate places that- are 
now inhabited, upon the people that are gathered out of the 
nations." Here we have the same expression, " I will go up to 
the land." This expression is always used when speaking of 
approach to Christian Israel. " The land of unwalled villages, 
dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, finds 
its complete fulfillment with us. The phrase, " at rest, that 
dwell safely, etc.," refers again to their being a distance from 
other nations. We are " the desolate places that are now in- 
habited;" we are "the people that are gathered out of the na- 
tions." 

Isaiah xlix. 23: "Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and 
queens thy nursing mothers." The word "nursing" in the 
margin is translated " nourishers." These terms imply atten- 
tions to the infancy of the restoration. If it had not been for 
the attentions of royalty in our early history, we could not have 
survived. From the time Isabella sold her jewels, through all 
our weak and dependent history, they were our support. Mr. 
Baldwin says: "The memorial of nursing kings and queens 
and princes will remain upon our rivers and waters, our coun- 
ties and towns, our cities and States, while time shall last. 
Louisiana, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, Dela- 
ware, New York, New Jersey and New Hampshire will ever 
suggest the early interest of royalty in our colonial history." 

Isaiah i. 26: "I will restore thy judges as at the first, and 
thy counselors as at the beginning." This shows emphatically 
what kind of a government Christian Israel shall be. It shall 
be like the Hebrew republic in the beginning, not after they 
had wickedly changed it into a monarchy. Judges and coun- 
selors were an essential part of Hebrew democracy, or of th'. j 
first government, the one God established for them, and it 
shows emphatically that their restoration implies republicanism 

Jere. xxx. 21: "Their nobles shall be of themselves, and 
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ours will answer to this? No comment of ours will enlighten 
this. Isaiah xlvii. 17: "Thy destroyers, and they that make 
thee waste, shall go forth of thee." The principles of mon- 
archy in any form, spiritual or civil, have always wasted the 
true Christian Church. The abandoning of Christian Israel by 
all monarchies leaves the only alternative of freedom. But the 
great destroyer of the true Christian Church has been the 
papal power, which is called in Revelations "the beast; " call- 
ed by St. Paul " that man of sin, the son of perdition, who," he 
says, " opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called 
God or that is worshiped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the 
temple of God, showing himself that he is God." And since 
he has arrogated to himself infallibility, how completely he 
fulfills these predictions of him. Now, the prophecy we are 
considering, I believe to be a promise that Christian Israel 
shall be freed from this element so hostile to civil and religious 
liberty. Now there are two ways in which this may be brought 
about. One is by war and bloodshed, and the other is by their 
becoming Americanized by being brought in contact with our 
systems of enlightenment, our public schools, our teaching of 
pure Gospel doctrines, and our free institutions. Some fear 
the former; I do not. I believe it will be brought about in the 
last mentioned way. God does not save people by churches 
and societies and corporate bodies, but individually. Human 
salvation is an individual concernment; hence there are many 
good people in the Romish Church, and thousands are being 
saved out of it constantly; and no class of people, however 
deep they may be sunk in ignorance and superstition, can be 
brought in contact with our systems of enlightenment and free 
institutions, without coming up out of the wilderness. And 
this is the reason why some, who want to keep the masses in 
subjection to them, and consequently try to keep them in 
ignorance, are so hostile to our public school system and free 
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We are aware that great efforts are put forth, and Cardinals are 
sent over, but we will enlighten their masses, Americanize and 
Christianize them, and make good subjects of Christian Israel 
of them. Some of their leaders and some few bigoted mem- 
bers, who refuse to advance with progressive America (or Is- 
rael), will finally leave our Israel of their own accord, as a soil 
not congenial to the growth of their principles. Fear not, my 
American citizens; fear not the bloody inquisition, nor the 
power of the beast and the dragon, in any form, for the promise 
has gone forth from Jehovah, " thy destroyers shall go forth of 
thee." 

Again, Isaiah xxxiii. 20: " Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem 
a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; 
but there the glorious Lord shall be unto us a place of broad 
rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with oars, 
neither shall gallant ships pass thereby." The term Jerusalem 
is used as often as the term Israel to designate God's nation- 
ality. It is a circumstance to be noted, that whenever the 
Prophets speak of the restoration of Israel, they always express 
in some form its peace and permanency. Here it is expressed 
in the sentence, " Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habi- 
tation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down." " A place 
of broad rivers and streams," implies a land of great pros- 
perity and peace. Mr. Baldwin says: "It is common in 
Scripture to embody a promise or threat in terms figurative, 
which, when taken literally, designate the very agencies by 
which the threat or promise is realized. Sword and fire may 
symbolize war, or rain may represent plenty, yet each is an 
essential agent in the realization. So, broad rivers and streams 
may symbolize vast inland prosperity, and yet are essential 
means in effecting it, and may, therefore, be taken in a literal 
as well as figurative sense." "Galley" and "gallant ship " 
represent the greater and smaller classes of war vessels. Their 
presence would indicate the vassalage of Jerusalem to foreign- 



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ers; their absence, therefore, declares Israel's independence. 
Vast inland prosperity, afforded by broad rivers and streams, 
a glorious independence of all nations, are great features of 
Christian Israel and of the American people. 

Daniel says: " Unto 2300 days, then shall the sanctuary bo 
cleansed. It shall be for a time, times and a half, and when 
he shall have accomplished, to scatter the power of the holy 
people, all these things shall be finished. From the time the 
daily sacrifice shall be taken away, there shall be 1290 days." 
These texts give each the length of Israel's desolation. Their 
starting point is at the cessation of the daily sacrifice on the 
189th day of the year 68 A. D. Dr. Baldwin shows con- 
clusively that their ending is on July 4th, 1776. On that day 
a nation was born. 



CHAPTER II. 



We propose in this chapter to examine Nebuchadnezzar's 
celebrated vision of the great monarchy image. This vision 
was given 605 years B. C, or in the year of the world 3401. 
This prophecy contains a history of the world from that period 
to the millennium. It is recorded in Dan. II. and reads as fol- 
lows: "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. 
This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood be- 
fore thee; and the form thereof was terrible." "This image's 
head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his 
belly and his thighs of brass." " His legs of iron, his feet part 
of iron and part of clay." "Thou sawest till that a stone 
was cut without hands, which smote the image upon his feet 
that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces." ''Then 
was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken 
to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the pummer 



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threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place 
was found for them: and the stone that smote the image be- 
came a great mountain, and filled the whole earth." This im- 
age is the embodiment of all the great monarchiai governments 
that were ever to exist, for so the Prophet affirms. Now you 
will observe that this image expresses chronology from the head 
downward, and as the Prophet gives the first one, there is no 
trouble in recognizing each successive kingdom as they arise, 
for they arise in chronological order, and occupy the same ter- 
ritory. " This image's head was of fine gold," and the Prophet 
pays: " Thou art this head of gold ." Here the first kingdom is 
expressly stated by the Prophet to be the Babylonian empire. 
He says this empire embraced the whole earth, " wheresoever 
the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field," etc., God 
k hath made thee ruler over them all," implies universal do- 
minion. Its capital was in Asia. It subdued a portion of 
Africa. Carried its conquests into Europe as far as Spain. It 
was not literally universal, but according to Daniel's interpre- 
tation, it was sufficiently so to answer the purposes of prophecy. 
Again, "This image's head was of fine gold, his bre;ist and his 
arms of silver." Now Daniel says, " Thou art this head of 
gold, and after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to 
thee." The first kingdom being given, and the next following 
i g chronological order, and was to supply the place of the other, 
and occupy the same territory, it is easy to discover the name 
of the second as soon as it made its appearance. Media and 
Persia were originally provinces of the Assyrian empire, and in 
the day of Cyrus they were unite! in one monarchy, and over- 
turned the Babylonian empire, and of course this was the second 
empire intended by Daniel, since it removed the first and raised 
i self upon its ruins. Hence the " Medo-Persian " empire was 
the second, or silver empire. 

The Prophet says, the "Medo-Persian" empire was to be 
inferior to the first, which history corro' o .it 'S. It was in- 



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ferio^, both in extent of empire and morally. We will not 
spend much time identifying the four kingdoms of monarchy, 
they are so very easy to identify, and all modern writers on the 
Prophecies, as far as we are acquainted, agree as to these four 
empires. The third kingdom is that represented by the brass: 
The interpretation says, "Thou art this head of gold, and 
after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and an- 
other third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the 
earth." Alexander the Great subverted the Persian empire 
and founded the Macedonian on its ruins. So the third king- 
dom that appeared in chronological order from the Babylonian 
was the Macedonian. It will be observed that no two of these 
kingdoms could exist at one and the same time, for each one 
was to be universal, hence had to occupy the same territory. 
So each successor was, therefore, compelled to overthrow its 
predecessor to make room for itself. The character of this 
empire was symbolized by the brass. Bishop Newton says? 
" the Macedonian empire was fitly represented by brass, for 
the Greeks were famous for their brazen armor, their usual 
epithet being, ' The Brazen-coated Greeks.' " But we think 
more important qualities were intended by the metal. Dr. 
Baldwin says, "the gold of the head indicated the refined 
character, splendor and value of the Babylonian empire; and 
the silver, the inferior value and splendor of the Persian power; 
the brass, being baser yet stronger than gold or silver, may in- 
dicate a baser moral character of government, but of greater 
energies and capabilities in war." Again, the third kingdom 
was to bear rule over all the earth. The term " all the earth " 
has various significations in the scriptures. It generally means 
the civilized world, and this empire comprised " all the earth " 
as extensively as the Babylonian, and Daniel says, that was 
sufficiently universal to answer the prophecy. It is said that 
Alexanders empire comprehended Europe, Asia and Africa as 
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was subsequent. It is related of Alexander that after he had 
subverted the Medo-Persian empire, he stood upon the shore of 
the Indian ocean and wept that there were no more to conquer. 
It was doubtless at this time in his history that he gave com- 
mand that he should be called " king of the world." Alexan- 
der conquered in obedience to his unbounded ambition, not 
knowing that he was putting in a link in prophecy when he 
did it. Again, the later existence of the third kingdom was to 
be marked by a division into two branches; this is indicated 
by the brass extending from the body into the limbs. Now, it 
is a well known fact in history, that after Alexander's death 
the Macedonian empire was divided among his four officers, 
Cassander, Lysymachus, Ptolemy, Seleucus. But these were 
soon reduced to two, Legidse and Seleucidae reigning in Syria 
and Egypt. 

Bishop Newton says: "Their kingdom was no more a 
different kingdom than the parts differ from the whole. It 
was the same government st.ll continued. They who gov- 
erned were still Macedonians. The metal was the same, and 
the nation was the same. Nor is the same nation ever repre- 
sented by different metals, but the different metals always 
signify different nations. All ancient authors speak of the 
kingdom of Alexander and his successors as one and the same 
kingdom. The thing is implied in the very name by which 
they are called, the successors of Alexander. But perhaps we 
have spent time enough on this kingdom to identify it as the 
Macedonian. 

We come now to the fourth — the iron kingdom, or Roman 
empire. Interpretation: u And the fourth kingdom shall be 
strong as iron; forasmuch as iron Lie, keth, ail these shall it 
break in pieces and bruise, ai.d whereas thou rawest the 
feet and toes, part of potters' clay and part of iron, the 
kingdom shall be divided. But there shall be in it of the 
strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed 






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with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iro i 
and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong <v 
partly broken. And whereas thou sawest i:on mixea with 
clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men. 
But they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is no 
mixed with clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut ou 
without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, that were 
of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces." This kingdom i- 
represented by the symbol as existing in three distinct forms. 
The first form is that of a unit, represented by the iron alone. 
" His legs were of iron." It was, you observe, purely an iron 
kingdom for a period of time. As each metal was a little 
stronger than the preceding one, as you come down the image 
in chronological order, showing the power of each kingdom to 
subvert its predecessor, so it is expressly statel that ;< the 
fourth kingdom shall be stiong as iron, forasmuch as iron 
breaketh, all these [kingdoms or metals] shall it break in 
pieces and bruise." One writer says: " Rome has the best, 
claim to this iron character of any nation that ever existed- 
whether consolidated or in fragments, it has wielded greater 
power and commanded a larger measure of influence, been 
more resistless in war and endured more lastingly, than any 
other empire whatever. It was avast kingd, m of warr' r>, 
and that, too, for ages. And Mars was its tutelary deity, its 
code of jurisprudence also have yielded a commanding in- 
fluence in the earth for near two thousand years. As iron is 
the strongest of metals, so Rome has been the strongest of alj 
nations." The fourth kingdom was to crush out all other na- 
tions. The Roman empire comprehended all of the civilized 
world and much of the barbarous. The three eastern conti- 
nents were within it, or tributary to it. 

In our Saviour's time the term Rome and the whole earth 
were used as synonymous terms. St. Luke says, when our 
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that " all the world should be taxed." Rome existed as an 
iron unit down to the days of Theodosius, or for a thousand 
years. Now, we come to the second form in which this king- 
dom existed. Now, you will observe, that the composition or 
material that symbolized each kingdom, symbolized its politi- 
cal character. So with this last kingdom, after it existed 
purely an iron kingdom for a while, another element, another 
material comes in with the iron. Of all the expositors, but 
one has treated with any critical attention the coming in of the 
clay. By this it is evident that the union of Church and State 
is intended. That the clay symbolizes a class of people, the 
same as the metals, not only stands to reason, but is put be- 
yond a doubt by the Prophet's own interpretation. He says, in 
referring to the clay, " they " — mark you, he uses the pronoun 
of multitude, "THEY," referring to people. "They shall 
mingle with the seed of men." By the expression, " seed of 
m :n," is implied men of the world, or political world. A simi- 
lar expression is found in the VI chap. 2d verse of Genesis, 
where it means the same. Again, as the iron unquestionably 
represented the political character of the empire before the 
clay came in with the iron and mixes wit'i it in about equal 
proportions, and as this class of men represented by the clay, 
and designated by the pronoun " they" are said by the 
Prophets to " mingle themselves with that class represented by 
the iron, they must of necessity conjointly represent the po- 
litical character of the empire after this union. And the 
Prophet also says that these two classes of men though united 
in the government, " shall not cleave one to another even as 
iron is not mixed [chemically] with clay." And as to the 
peace and harmony of this incestuous union of Church and 
State, I will refer you to all past history. Dr. Baldwin has 
very well said: "As the clay is a base material, so the 
Christian Church, by this union with the State, has been 
grosslv corrupted, and they who mingled themselves with the 



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seed of men have become baser than the iron of the world. As 
the clay and iron were not to cleave closely to each other, so 
has been this debased alloy of Church and State. The exact 
relationship of the Church to the State has never been generally 
agreed upon, and there has been through past ages a constant 
struggle between them for political supremacy, the iron gene; 
rally prevailing over the clay. Popes have arrogated suprem- 
acy, and absolved subjects from allegiance to kings and 
princes; but kings and princes have generally carried the day. 
So, that while they have remained and do remain combined, 
they have never been united, even " as iron is not [chemically] 
united or mixed with clay." They have had conflicting in- 
terests, and, from the nature of the case, they always will have. 
Nothing can exceed the accuracy of the brief description the 
Prophet gives of Church and State union in the Roman empire 
since it institution. Nothing, in fact, could be more perfect. 
The Church, with her magical cross, has awed kings and 
princes, rulers and people, into submission. The Pope has 
brought kings to his feet, and powerful emperors have spent 
frosty nights in penance upon his door-step, While kings and 
emperors in return, rising from their magic spell, as from the 
deep of slumber, have, while gratifying their own ambition, 
thought it best to curb the ambition of the Pope, and with the 
sword have — in the language of the great Napoleon — "brought 
his highness to terms." While God intends that a pure and en- 
lightened religion, or Christianity, shall be the mother of a per- 
fect civil government in the earth, He evidently does not intend 
the union of Church and State. That has ever been fruitful of 
the greatest evil. While carnal Israel, or the Jewish Church, 
reaped some advantages by her bondage in Egypt and connec- 
tion with Pharoah's throne, drawing her supplies from the gov- 
ernment, was preserved from famine, multiplied in numbers, 
etc. So spiritual Israel, or the Christian Church gained some 
advantage at first, in going into spiritual bondage, by being 



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connected with the throne of the Roman empire. But since 
that day, blood and crime has marked her way in the earth. 
Aside from the terrible wars she has engendered, the lands she 
has desolated, the homes she has saddened, it is estimated that 
50,000,000 souls have lost their lives by her union with the 
State. 

I have before stated, and I hope to show beyond a doubt, 
before I get through with this present vision of Daniel. That 
when a great and mighty nation suddenly arose on the 4th day 
of July, 1776, civil and religious liberty first dawned upon the 
world, by the complete and eternal divorcement of Church and 
State. 

Up to that time we read of the horrid inquisitions, auto- 
defe, bloody massacres. But since that day that hellish trio, 
Pope, Pagan and Despot, with their concommitants, the rack, 
the wheel, the stake and the guillotine, have all felt that at our 
dawn, humanity arose, and with that humanity, a civil arm 
that will not brook such horrid means to force the impenetrable 
entrenchments of the human soul; to bind down the unconquer- 
able human conscience; to put out the unquenchable flame that 
burns in the human heart for civil and religious liberty. 

We have shown these kingdoms to be the Babylonian, Medo- 
: ersian, Macedonian and Roman We have seen that the pro- 

ie historian agrees with revelation in pointing out these king- 
doms. Prophecy is history pre-written, hence, the true Prophet 
a: d the correct historian must agree. Bishop Newton says: 
"Ail ancient writers, both Jewish and Christian, agree with 
Jerome in explaining the fourth kingdom to be the Roman." 
Mr. Mede says: " The Roman empire, to be the fourth kingdom 
of Daniel, was believed by the Church of Israel, both before and 
in our Saviour's time; received by the disciples of the Apostles 
and the whole Christian Church, for the first three hundred 
ye irs, without any known contradictions. And I confess, hav- 
n : bo good ground in Scripture, it is with me " Tantvm non cat 



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articulus fidei" little less than an article of faith. Now, th e 
third form, or period, of this kingdom was the broken one 
represented by the ten toes. Mark, these two things are 
affirmed of this kingdom: It was to be divided and then 
broken. It was to be divided into Church and State (clay and 
iron) after continuing for a period; it was to be broken up into 
smaller kingdoms, and its political character of clay and iron 
was to continue in its broken state, the clay continues with the 
iron down into the toes. The Roman empire was broken to 
pieces by the inroads of the Germans, Goths, Vandals and 
Huns, and ten kingdoms in less than two hundred years made 
their appearance. These ten were simply a representative 
number. There were to be many more than these during its 
broken period. Rome is still in its broken state, characterized 
still by the union of Church and State (clay and iron.) Now, 
there is this difference between the Prophet and the Historian 
— the Prophet looks upon the Roman empire as still existing 
in its broken state; the Historian, as having passed away, and 
its place supplied by smaller ones. Now, the Prophet inti- 
mates that it is to be reunited or consolidated again. This 
must be his meaning, for he says, the stone, or the fifth king- 
dom, smote the image on the feet, which must have been after 
it had existed for a period in that state represented by the 
toes. 

If I understand Dr. Baldwin, he thinks it is to be restored as it 
was before. I do not think so. I think by this is meant the 
confederation of all these monarchies, preparatory to the great 
blow to be struck against republicanism, or, as it is called in 
prophecy, the great battle of " Armageddon" sybolized here by 
the stone kingdom, of which we purpose to speak in the next 
chapter. 

Let us mark this one particular, as we pass from trie time 
these kingdoms began to rise, the march of empire has been 
steadily westward. We will see when we come to treat of the 



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next, the fifth or stone kingdom, that " the star of empire " has 
not changed her course, but that 

u Westward the course of empire takes its way, 
The first four acts already passed. 
The fifth shall close the drama with the day, 
Time's noblest empire is its last." 



CHAPTER III. 



We will all agree, doubtless, in the beginning of this investi- 
gation, upon this one fact: That this fifth kingdom which the 
vision presents, and which Daniel interprets, is no other, and 
can be no other, than the restoration of Israel to nationality. 
For it is here doing precisely the work that is always predicted 
of Israel restored; that is, breaking in pieces and subduing 
monarchy, or, in the variable language of the Prophets, subdu- 
ing all the kingdoms of the world. 

Again, it occupies the same territory that Israel was to oc- 
cupy, and that is the whole entire world, and also its endless 
duration, which is here expressed in that same language so 
often used by the Prophets " for ever and ever." You must 
have observed all along, how careful the Prophets are in speak- 
ing of Christian Israel's nationality, to not leave the subject 
without speaking of its universality and perpetuity. You can 
invariably detect that the Prophets are speaking of this nation- 
ality by these two features. Something that cannot be said — 
of course — of any other nation that may ever arise; for it com- 
prises the whole world and shall endure '' forever." This king- 
dom, as you are aware, we claim to be the United States of 
America. 



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You may say we are treading a new path for truth. Nob 
wholly so. The late president of the " Soule Female College," 
a man of no mean- talent, held the same views that we do. We 
are aware of the difficulties and disadvantages under which we 
labor in expounding prophecy. Buc^the difficulties are not in 
the prophecies, especially those that have been unsealed to man 
by a partial fulfillment. But they lie in the preconceived opin- 
ions of men upon the subject, and the firm and settled error of 
those opinions, and the determined hostility to any argument 
that would overthrow or unsettle them. Dr. Whedon, the 
commentator says, " every man is in an exegetical fix," the 
difficulty is, to get him out of that fix, and get new and correct 
opinions into him. 

A celebrated educator has said, "it is harder to unlearn what 
we have learned wrong than to learn correctly." One author 
says, " some persons have never fully formed an opinion on the 
subject; while others have satisfied themselves that some one 
has made a great mistake in explaining prophecy somehow, 
and are consequently distrustful of the ability of any man to 
throw any new light upon the subject. Others and of the 
smaller class, are ever ready fairly to examine all honorable 
argument and to decide justly. And as for ourselves, we can truly 
say, we had rather, by far, try to make a wide-awake, progressive 
infidel see these sublime truths, than some who have been 
rocked in the cradle of Christianity, for they will tell you that 
the old elder who baptized their great grand-father, and 
preached to four generations down from him, never, interpreted 
Scripture that way. And you might as well try to shake Mt. 
iEtna down into a plain, as to enrich their minds with any new 
discoveries in Scripture. 

But to return; please pardon this digression. We will take 
up the points which are given to identify this kingdom. 

1st. The time of its rise. This is expressed and implied in the 
positive words of the vision and in the interpretation, also, in 



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the time when the destruction of the image was to take place. 
The Prophet says: "Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out 
without hands." Now, mark closely the following fact: " It 
is certain that the image was a chronological one and repre- 
sented successive kingdoms, from the Babylonian down to the 
broken state of the Roman 1 empire represented by toes of iron 
and clay. It is certain that he saw the history of the world 
down to the subversion of the Roman empire. It is certain 
that he saw a period of time extending from his day down to 
the fifth century. It is certain that after he had seen the whole 
era of the image down to the broken stages of Rome, that he 
continued to look prospectively into the future. It is certain 
that he did not see the empire of the stone until he had seen 
the whole history of the world from his own days to those of 
the broken empire. Nor did he see it then, for it is certain that 
he saw it by looking beyond the period of the broken state of 
Rome, and that he did not see it by any retrospective view. 
That little episode thrown in there, " thou sawest till" has an 
expressiveness of futurity in it absolutely, as well as relatively. 
The word till, says Mr. Webster, signifies "to the time of, or, 
to the time, as, I will wait till next week, or, occupy till I 
come." Now, the Prophet expressly told the King, that after 
he had seen the whole prophetic and chronological image, 
down to the toes or broken state, that he then continued to look 
forward, and that in looking his attention was arrested by the 
sight of a stone cut out of the mountains without hands. " This 
view is further confirmed, as well as illustrated, by a parallel 
and fac-simile passage found in Daniel's vision of the very 
same events. After Daniel saw the broken state of the fourth 
kingdom, he says, he continued to look into the future, and 
then he uses the same style of language," " I beheld till the 
thrones were cast down." This expression and the one before 
us, " thou sawest till" the stone kingdom destroyed monarchy, 
synchronize and relate to the same events. The Prophet's own 



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interpretation of the vision drives us to the same conclusio ■ 
irresistibly. He says: "In the days of these kings shall the 
God of heaven set up a kingdom," etc. We have authorit - 
that the Hebrew original "beyomahon" signified literally, "i i 
their days." These plural terms show us plainly that it was 
after the broken state of Rome, after the ten representativ 
kingdoms had arisen. Some refer these words to the four pre 
ceding kingdoms. But this must, of necessity, be incorrect. 
The fifth kingdom could smite the Babylonish king, the Per- 
sian, the Macedonian and the Roman, but it could not smite 
kings in this case, for they reigned centuries apart; but the 
Prophet is speaking of a number of kingdoms existing simul- 
taneously. He gives us the history of the image chronologically 
down to the toe or broken period, when there are several kings 
reigning at the same time, and then he says: " In the days of 
these kings," etc. Again, in speaking of the power of the fifth 
kingdom, he says: "It shall brake in pieces and consume all 
these kingdoms" Now, I ask you what is plainer than this fact, 
that if this fifth kingdom had arisen in the days of Rome, be- 
fore it was broken into a plurality of kingdoms, that it must 
have been set up in the days of one king, or kingdom, and not 
"in their days of these kings," as the text says it should be. 
Again, it is a principle of logic that "relative words should be 
referred to the nearest, rather than to a remote, antecedent," 
h r nee we cannot, therefore, without a palpable violation of a 
plain, logical rule, make the terms in " their days and of those 
kings," refer to the great period of the whole four kingdoms. 

2d. We come now to the origin of the stone kingdom. No 
one but Dr. Baldwin ever interpreted one vastly important 
symbol, which we now bring forward. It is perfectly astonish- 
ing that all writers on the Prophecies, prior to Mr. Baldwin, 
should have passed by unnoticed this most important of all the 
symbols. And that is the mountain origin of the stone king- 
dom. The vision says: "Thou sawest till a stone was cut 



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out without hands." Here it is very plain that the stone was 
inherent in something, otherwise it would not have been " cut 
out." The Prophet's interpretation says it was " cut out of the 
mountain." As the stone symbolically represented a kingdom, 
and a very powerful one to destroy such powerful empires, it is 
plain that the stone kingdom was derived from some pre- 
existing power, from which such a powerful kingdom could be 
cut or formed. Now, it was cut from the mountain, and the 
term mountain has a definite meaning in the Prophecies, and 
always signifies an organized body of people of some kind, 
either political or ecclesiastical. 

" Now, the fifth kingdom being cut out of a prophetic king- 
dom, we must inquire what kind of government it was to be. 
Lt was evident, from the nature of the case, that it was a king- 
dom totally different from any in the image represented by the 
gold, silver, clay, iron or brass. It is further clear that as the 
stone would partake of the nature of its original composition, 
that the mountain would be opposed in character to the king- 
doms in the image, because the stone kingdom hated and 
destroyed the other kingdoms. Now, the only great organiza- 
tion in the world that hates corrupt religion and corrupt civil 
government is pure and free Christianity, and therefore the 
mountain must represent the true Church or kingdom of 
Christ." Hence, the fifth or stone kingdom is that nation 
which has arisen out of Christianity, freed from Church and 
State union, or out of the "mountain of the Lord's house." Of 
those who hold that the stone kingdom is Christianity, I would 
not only ask such persons what the mountain is that the stone 
kingdom is cut out of, but I would inform such that Christian- 
ity is forbidden to do the work of the stone kingdom. To 
1 reak in pieces and consume powerful kingdoms requires a 
powerful martial force; and the founder of Christianity said: 
''Put up thy sword; he that taketh the sword, let him perish 
by the sword," etc. And if you say Christianity did this by 



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working internally ,we shall show you before we get through with 
this subject that that stone came from a distance and smote it 
on the outside. Mark one more thing: The term "cut outoi 
the mountain " does not imply a part cut off from the moun- 
tain, as a stone cut off from a cliff or ledge of rocks composing 
a mountain, but the change of the mountain substance into a 
double nature, just as we say a statue is cut out of a block of 
marble, or a vase is cut out of alabaster. Again, the stone 
kingdom is identified by its political character. We have al- 
ready intimated, and it is plainly seen from the prophecy, that 
this fifth empire was to possess a mighty political strength of 
character. If you were to listen to a man reading history, and 
he should read of one powerful kingdom after another, each 
wielding a powerful martial force, overthrowing other king- 
doms, at a great expense of life and treasure; and all at once 
he should mention one doing the same work, and he should 
stop and say to you: "This is spiri tual, not a political, organi- 
zation," you would want to know what authority he had for 
that interpretation. 

We wish to quote to you on this point Mr. Tillinghast, in full. 
He says the kingdom of the stone is a kingdom in respect of 
nature, the same with the kingdoms represented by the great 
image, i. e. y it is outward as they are outward; which appears: 

1st. From the general scope and drift of the prophecy, 
which runs upon outward kingdoms. All the first four king- 
doms, or monarchies, are outward, as none can deny ; why, 
then, the Holy Ghost, in speaking of the fifth and last, should 
so vary the scope as to glide from the outward kingdom to the 
inward, ought (besides the bare say-so) to have some solid and 
substantial reason brought for it by those, whosoever they are, 
that either do or shall assert it. 

21. Because it is not proper to say, that a bare spiritual 
kingdom, considered only as spiritual, should break in pieces, 
beat to very chaff, grind to powder the great image, i. e., destroy 



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the very being of worldly kingdoms, which work is yet, not- 
withstanding, done by the stone. Indeed Christ's spiritual 
kingdom may, by that light and life which it gives forth, much 
refine and reform outward kingdoms, but when once the work 
comes to breaking to pieces, i. e., subverting kingdoms, razing 
their very foundations and destroying their very being, as they 
are the kings of this world here, unless we conceive God to do 
it by a miracle, must we also conceive some other hand, besides 
a spiritual, to be put to the work. 

3d. Because the stone, to the end there might not be a vacancy 
in the world, comes straightway in the place and room of the 
great image, so soon as the same is totally broken. For as the 
great image, while standing, bears rule over all the earth, so 
the same being broken, the stone becomes a mountain, and fills 
the whole earth, therefore must the kingdom of the stone be 
such a kingdom, as was that of the great image. Viz., Outward : 
or otherwise, the coming of that, in the place of the other now 
taken away, could not supply the want of the other." We 
quote from Baldwin: 

1st. " The nature of the work to be accomplished by the stone 
was of a purely political, or rather material character. It was to 
break up the four great monarchies, and utterly anhihilate them. 
No monarchy was ever broken down except by martial or politi- 
cal violence; and no kingdom was ever overthrown by another 
without great bloodshed. The vision says, the fifth king- 
dom shall break the four kingdoms to pieces, and they should 
become as chaff; the interpretation says, 'it shall break in 
pieces and consume all these kingdoms.' Here the stone is 
stated to perform the work of annihilation of the political fab- 
rics before it, in two ways: first by breaking them to pieces; 
and, secondly, by consuming them. 

The term, "breaking to pieces," must be understood in the 
same sense in which the Prophet uses it in other parts of the 
prophecy Now, he said of the fourth kingdom of iron, that it 



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should "break in pieces" all the kingdoms before it. Then, as 
the Roman, or fourth kingdom, broke in pieces all the nations 
before it, by the most bloody and devastating wars, it follows, 
that as the fourth kingdom should be "broken to pu ces" by the 
stone, that the breaking would, in its case, be by d] eadful war, 
as in the other cases. There is no room to evade this conclu- 
sion without violating a plain rule of interpretation ; that is, by 
assigning a different sense to an author's words than he him- 
self has given. The terms, "became chaff," and "consuming," 
are obviously somewhat different in signification from that of 
" breaking to pieces." They imply that the empire was first 
divided into large masses, and that these were then subjugated 
and utterly wasted away by conquest. 

St. John, in describing the destruction of the Roman power 
in the last battles, by the fifth kingdom, says the beast and 
false phophet were first taken, and then the remnant were slain. 
The beast corresponds to the fourth kingdom; and he being 
taken, coincides with the breaking up of the image into frag- 
ments; and the slaying of the remnant coincides with the con- 
suming process upon the fragments of the broken image. 

2d. The breaking of the image was by a sudden stroke of 
the stone. Dr. Adam Clark says, the falling of the stone upon 
the feet of the image was like the stroke of a stone discharged 
violently from a Roman catapult. There was but one stroke 
of the stone on the feet. It was plainly a swift stroke, and, 
therefore, a sudden one; there was no protracted effort on its 
part to break up monarchy; there was no repetition of the blow 
by the stone, for the image fell the very instant its feet felt the 
force of the single disrupting blow. The text says, it " smote 
the image upon his feet, which were of iron and clay, and 
broke them to pieces;" and it adds, "then was the iron, 
the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces 
together." One sudden stroke of the stone broke the feet to 
pieces, and then, at that very time, for such is the meaning of 



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the term then, the whole material fell to pieces. The sudden 
dashing of the Roman empire to pieces by a single stroke, ab- 
solutely implies great and unprecedented political or martial 
power. And, again, the existence of the empire in fragments, 
implies that this state was produced by political power; and 
its comminution into chaff is still further expressive of it. 

3d. The time when this smiting was to transpire, is further 
proof that the fifth kingdom was to be a political power. The 
feet were to be broken by the stone, and then every vestige of 
Rome was to disappear. The toes were not to be smitten, but 
the feet, the Prophet says. Now, as the image was chronological, 
the Roman empire represented by the toes, was not simulta- 
neous with that state of it represented by the feet, nor could 
the image be smitten in that state represented by the feet prior 
to that represented by the toes; for if it had been, the toe, or 
broken state, would never have appeared at all, because the 
image was all to dissolve at only one stroke of the stone. The 
only way to reconcile the matter, is, by allowing a reunion of 
the broken empire represented by the feet of iron and clay. 
St. John clearly states, that the ten kingdoms should agree 
together to give their power to the beast, and that, in this con- 
federacy, they should be broken by the fifth empire; he, there- 
fore, fully confirms our positions here. No man of any brains 
can imagine that the European states, when confederated, can 
ever be broken to pieces by an extraneous power, unless that 
extraneous power be a civil government with martial power. 

4th. The Roman empire, or fourth kingdom, was to be de- 
molished by a power without its borders. The stone was not 
in any wise attached to the image; it was not generated in it, 
and did not operate upon the image internally; it smote the 
image outside, and moved toward it from a distance. It was, 
therefore, a kingdom that did not grow up in the bounds of the 
ttotnan empire at all; it did not foment discord in its territories 
o secretly and silently work its ruin by moral suasion. On the 



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contrary, as it grew in strength, Rome grew in strength; for a? 
it originated in the broken state of Rome, and did not smite it 
till Rome was reunited, it is evident that both grew stronger 
simultaneously. It was an external, foreign power to Rome or 
Europe, and its country was not in the limits of the old Roman 
empire. 

5th. The kingdom of the mountain, into which the stone 
was to grow, every one admits, will be a government in which 
•everything will be Christianized. From the very nature of the 
case, the civil and spiritual departments of good government 
will never be blended. Christ will ultimately be priest of the 
one and king of the other; but this does not imply that they 
will ever be blended, but just the contrary. The millennial 
government, or mountain will, therefore, possess a civil depart- 
ment. Now, as the kingdom of the stone is simply to expand 
into the millennial government, it follows that it must be pos- 
sessed of a civil department of government. Those persons 
who fancy a universal church on earth, with no civil code, have 
very crude notions of the matter, to say the least of it. Mr. 
Baldwin says: "The gospel will never admit of any such uni- 
versal salmagundi." 



CHAPTER IV. 



In the last chapter we considered some of the features of the 
fifth or stone kingdom, its rise, origin, and its character to 
some extent. Now, there is nothing more evident than the 
fact that this stone kingdom possessed a mighty political or 
martial power, for without it it could not have done the work 
predicted of it. By the smiting of the stone in the vision is 
symbolized the great battle of Armageddon, spoken of in Rev- 
elation 16th chap., 14th, 15th and 16th verses, as the great an^ 



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decisive struggle of republicanism with monarchy. Of the 
place and time and particulars of this terrible war we will try- 
to speak more definitely in another treatise. But after the 
stone kingdom had accomplished the mammoth work of de- 
stroying all the political powers of the East, it grew into a 
great mountain (a great nationality), and filled the whole 
earth. It had to do this of necessity, to supply the place of 
the others, it had to extend its own form of government over 
them. The prophet tells us this stone kingdom was God's gov- 
ernment, one He established, and we have already seen that the 
only government that God claims to have established on earth 
was a republic, and He has promised that, that nation restored 
shall be of the same style of government. It is apparent to 
human reason, that God's church — that is, Christianity — must 
eventually give to the world, and the whole world, a civil code; 
and the only form of government that free Christianity heartily 
endorses is the democratic. Now, it is certain, that not only 
the work, but the nature and power of the stone kingdom, 
proves it to be Israel res'ored, but its universality and perpet- 
uity puts it beyond a doubt. But one kingdom can be univer- 
sal and of endless duration. The stone after it became a greit 
nation, and filled the whole earth, was never to have an end, 
" never to be destroyed." All the political empires that had 
ever existed before it had been destroyed by physical violence, 
but this one was not thus to be moved. The expression "The 
kingdom shall not be left to other people," implies that another 
people shall not overcome it; nor shall it even pass from one 
dynasty to another. Which is additional evidence to my mind 
that it is democratic. " The empire of the world, as we have 
seen in considering the first four empires, had passed from 
people to people, but, according to this the people of the fifth 
kingdom were to hold the scepter of empire perpetually. Other 
political powers were to be wholly removed," no place ivas 
found for them" il they became like chaff of the summer 



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threshing floor, and the wind carried them away," but this 
empire stood up in everlasting continuance. It stood on earth: 
it stood where the Roman, the Grecian, the Persian, and the 
Assyrian empires stood, and there it stood forever. The judg- 
ment and the resurrection, and the regeneration of the heavens 
and earth by fire, did not move it, it shall stand and not be re- 
moved, forever. In its progress of glory, its territory may be 
cleansed by fire; its inhabitants may be purified by the judg- 
ment; the angels may "gather out of it all things that offend, 
and them that do iniquity," but the kingdom shall remain 
standing where it was originally established. It will be re- 
membered, that the promise of perpetuity to the stone kingdom 
is precisely that made to Israel when restored to nationality in 
the latter day, of which, it is said, they shall never be removed 
but shall abide for ever and ever. Again, that the stone was a 
democratic government, is seen from the fact that it destroyed 
all monarchy. In the first chapter we remarked that there 
were only two kinds of governments; that there could be but 
two kinds from the constitution of man. One holds that the 
right of governing does not exist in the consent of the governed. 
The other holds that there is no right of government except by 
the expressed consent of the governed. And, my readers, it 
does not require the gift of prophecy, nor the gift to look into 
prophecy, to see that these two principles are antagonistic and 
that one must supplant the other in the earth; you believe, my 
dear reader, that the democratic principle will ultimately pre- 
vail. We affirm, that God unequivocally promises in his word, 
that it shall prevail. And in the vision which we are consid- 
ering he teaches us that the day is coming when it shall sweep 
monarchy from the earth at a single dash. That little episode 
thrown in here, of which the Scriptures abound, where a few 
syllables express volumes, expresses much here. "Then was the 
iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and the gold, broken to 
pieces together, "and became like the chaff of the summe r 



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threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no 
place was found for them." 

Now, mark you, nothing of this kind was said when the 
Medo-Persian empire subverted the Babylonian or the Mace- 
donian subverted the Medo-Persian, although they were utterly 
annihilated. Nothing has been known of them since; yet the 
Prophet uses no such language in reference to them, but as 
ever, the stone smites and destroys the Roman empire. The 
Prophet enumerates all that composed the political character 
of the whole entire image, "the iron, the clay, the brass," etc., 
and tells us "it became as chaff and the wind carried them 
away that no place was found for them." There will be no 
place found for monarchy in the regenerated earth and heavens. 
Dr. Baldwin says: "It is an undeniable fact that the great im- 
age represented all the human monarchy that was ever to be 
universal on earth. And it is also undeniable, that not one 
fragment of their political character was to remain, for " there 
was no place found for them." In the annihilation of these 
monarchies, it follows that the divine right of kings, claimed 
by them, was swept forever from the earth. Now, as the stone 
removed all of the political fabric of monarchy, and filled its 
place with another kind of government, it is evident that the 
government must be a republic, because it could be of no other 
kind. Again, no reason is assigned in the text for the hostility 
of the stono to the whole system of monarchy; yet it is plain 
that it purposed to break up and totally extirpate not one part 
only of the system of monarchy, but it was terribly hostile to 
the minutest fragment of it. This again indicates its republi- 
can character, for there is an innate hostility in republicanism 
to monarchy, nor can it ever rest satisfied while it sees a mon- 
archy in existence. It is belligirent to the very name of a 
human king, and its highest indignation is never reached un- 
less it is roused on account of monarchy. We have already 
shown that God hates monarchy and loves a theocratic democ- 



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racy, such as that of republican Israel; and as he established 
the stone kingdom, it is evident that he would conform it to 
his notions of a true government, which is that of a democracy 
with himself as the chosen head. The fifth kingdom or gov- 
ernment would, therefore, be a Christian democracy. The 
stone, it is observable, did not incorporate one particle of clay 
or of the metals with itself; it preserved its lithological nature, 
unmixed by any affinity with the political qualities of clay or 
metal; it must, therefore, have been a republic. But as God 
was its founder he must have been acknowledged as its head, 
so that it was just such a republic as that which entered Canaan 
under Joshua. Now we will see how the United States com- 
ports with the stone kingdom. As some may think the idea 
of the United States in prophecy a chimerical one, we will 
quote from Dr. Baldwin on the probability that the United 
States would be a theme of prophecy. " The rise of the United 
States," says he, " began the great era of national humanity in 
the world. Cruelty and blood had been the principal features 
in the governments, from Babylon down to the Declaration; 
and the Declaration enumerates a catalogue of abuses and 
cruelties, on the part of England, for which rebellion was the 
only remedy. 

" The successful example of a rebellion on the part of op- 
pressed subjects soon taught monarchies to lighten the pressure 
of their iron heel upon the necks of the crushed. Hence, the 
cessation of inquisitions, auto defes and the general and bloody 
massacres of the good. The rise of the United States was the 
era of a nationality. Bad as many of our people are, our plague 
spots are purity compared to the corruptive courts of other 
lands." 

" Never did a nation have such a feeling heart as ours. The 
cry of starving Ireland wakens no chord in the heart of the Lion 
and Unicorn, but it thrills the bosoms of our millions, and they 
give with a free and full hand to the fainting slaves of British 



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freedom. The despairing cry of liberty from Hungary, stirs 
all, from ocean to ocean, and they nurse the moan upon the 
breast of memory, till the day of vengeance comes. They open 
wide their gates, and with outstretched arms invite the weary 
and heavy laden to tarry with them and be refreshed, ami 
sharpen their sword till the hour to strike for the world's 
release. They say, "whosoever will, let him come;" they say 
to the starving, "we have bread enough and to spare;" they 
day to the poor, "come share our rich inheritance;" they say 
to Me oppressed, "take shelter under the stars of our banner;" 
and, while millions crowd the way, they say, " there's room for 
millions more." Our kind hearted country is "the desire of 
all nations;" and to it the nations come. 

" Our rising was the epoch of knowledge among men, the 
realization of the prediction, "that many should run to and 
fro, and knowledge should be increased." With us the press, 
that luminary of liberty, arose like a splendid sun from the 
deeps of chaos, and, through the rifted clouds, flashed a be- 
wildering brightness on the unused eyes of the world. The 
press was chained before; now it is free. Unnumbered mil- 
lions of books and printed truths, each year, and month, and 
day, like bars, and beams, and rays of 'massy light,' pour 
their fair splendors on the immortal mind, through all our 
hemisphere. Here burns 'the lamp of eternity' on every 
table of the rich, and in every cottage of the lowly, lighting th« 
soul with the knowledge of its sublimity and the luster of 
Christianized humanity. Here science and art have sowed 
seed of perennial fruit, to grow and blossom now, and ripen early 
in the approaching millennial summer. Like fountains of 
worth and beauty, schools are among the hills and vales, and 
every where; and all 'our children are taught of the Lord.' 
Our rise was the epoch of agriculture, commerce, manufactures, 
and trade. Land had been tilled from Adam, to be sure, but 
when an empire was at once put under tribute by improved 






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modes of production, there was an epoch. Cotton rules the 
world; and cotton makes an era in the world's prosperity; and 
with us its culture fully began. Commerce was but a fishing 
smack before our union, now it is a navy on all the seas 
around the globe. Navigation then was a snail, now it is a 
tempest; then it was a galley with oars, now it is a palace 
driven with superhuman and invisible force; then it was toil, 
now an exquisite luxury. Then manufactories were mere 
crudities, now they darken and deafen kingdoms with smoke 
and roar. Then all were poor, now all are independent; then 
all was sluggish, now all is motion; then all was ignorance, 
now all is information; then a pillar of cloud led the Avorld, 
but now a pillar of fire. 

But again, our rise was the birth of organized and demo- 
cratic liberty. For such an event the nations had groaned, 
but never hoped to see. Philosophy had pronounced it impos- 
sible, and kings had scouted it as an idle conceit; yet it is 
realized at last. Its country, like a throne, is seated above all 
lands, upon the highest region of the globe. Its temple, like 
itself, is new, and free, and glorious. Its dome is the great 
open sky, adorned by God's own fingers, and lighted by lamps 
of his own kindling; circled with a cornice of his own painting, 
and animated with clouds moved and gilded by his own skill; 
its floor is the great continent bordered by seas on either side; 
its altar is the nation's heart; its music is the cheerful voice of 
the myriads of the free; its worship is the. praise of God; and 
there is no image of a God within its mountain walls, for the 
true God is there in spirit. Our nation was " a nation born \o 
God in a day" — born on Independence day. 

Upon the world the effects of our birth have been "life 
from the dead. "& Every part of the civilized wbrla, and es- 
pecially the religious world, has felt our existence as if we had 
been a universal galvanic battery. Our influence abroad can- 
not be expressed by volumes of words; it cannot be measured 



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by a gage, nor be estimated by balances, nor computed by 
figures. Revolutions are stirred by it, and every throne trem- 
bles on account of it; kings feel it, and the people are inspired 
by it; religion brightens through it, and apostate papacy shrinks 
from its touch. Blot us from the world, with all the influence 
we have exerted upon it, directly or indirectly, and how dark 
the globe would be! Hell would celebrate the catastrophe, and 
monarch s would invite all hell to a feast of thanksgiving at an 
event so delightful to iniquity. Pope and pagan would leap 
to youth from decrepitude, and despotism would embrace them 
again in its loving and confraternal arms, and all would dance 
with delight over their common and dreaded foe. No country 
ever existed that, in so short a space, affected the world so 
much and did so much for the good of the cause of God and 
humanity; and yet ours is but the state of infancy. Now, then, 
we ask a question: How can it be, that all other nations 
affecting the cause of God and man, should be specifically and 
repeatedly predicted by prophets, and our country, which has 
doie ix ore good than all others be unmentioned by the prophets? 
The prophets mention the minutest facts, and the smallest 
countries and villages that affected God's ancient and his mod- 
ern Israel; and how happens it that not a word is said of 
America? Egypt and Greece, Edom and Moab, and Tyre, and 
Damascus, and Sidon, and all the little towns of Asia Minor, 
and the Levant, come in for a share of notice, and all the 
mighty empires affecting the church are carefully enumerated; 
the divisions of the Roman empire were specially noticed, down 
to the end of them all, and yet no notice given of a Christian 
country that gives more comfort and relief to the Christians 
and the distressed than was ever given by all the world put 
together? How can it be possible that this country was left 
out of prophecy? How came it to be the alone proscribed 
nation in all the prophetic calendar? You may talk largely of 
reformations in Church and State, but no great and organic 



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reformations were, or are, complete and free elsewhere. And 
can the greatest epoch, the brightest era in the history of 
Christianity, be unnoticed in the scriptures, while all others of 
minor note are emphasized with a will? Surely no. Right 
where the prophets place the rise of Israel; right where the 
stone, or fifth kingdom, was to appear; right at that appointed 
time our Christian country arose, and it must be the fifth pre- 
dicted kingdom. 

" The stone was to arise after Church and State union, and 
in the broken state of Rome. The United States arose and no 
other did arise in this period except such as grew out of the 
image, or some fragment of it. Again, the stone kingdom 
came out of Christianity the mountain, and therefore possessed 
the dual character so often specified by the prophets, and which 
is an essential element of civil government. Washington, in 
his farewell address, says, ' With slight shades of difference, you 
have the same religion, manners, habits, and political princi- 
ples.' As the United States possesses the double nature of the 
Christian religion and a Christian civil government, it coin- 
cides with the double character of the stone. Again, it is 
indisputable that the United States government arose out of a 
Christian people, and that the constitution is essentially Chris- 
tian, but not sectarian. It recognizes all the great virtues and 
customs of true Christianity, and in all our history, the God of 
history has been authoritatively proclaimed as the king, and 
the only king of our people. The Declaration, the Constitu- 
tion, the State laws, the executive, the judiciary and the legis- 
lative powers of our country, have manifested uniformly and 
decidedly, that Christianity was the basis of our political struc- 
ture. Our coin sparkles with the illumination of Christianity, 
11 In God we trust" Again, the stone was to possess a political 
structure and a tremendous martial power. The exhibition we 
made of martial power in the great civil war, perfectly aston- 
ished all Europe, and made crowned heads tremble on their 



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thrones. Again, the stone kingdom arose external to the 
.Roman empire; it was not within its limits, it came from afar 
.and attacked it externally. Now the Roman empire limits 
embraced all of civilized Europe, Asia and Africa, or the 
whole of the old world; and by consequence the stone kingdom 
was to be in some portion of the new world or America. To 
this conclusion we are logically and inevitably coerced. The 
United States was erected external to the Roman empire, and 
is the only continent out of it where a great empire, sufficien 
to do this work, could arise. Again, the fifth empire was to be 
a republic, so is the United States. Again, the fifth empire was 
to break up the whole fabric of monarchy by war, and was 
then to annihilate the fragments. It must be remembered, 
that the image represented all of human monarchy that was 
ever to exist; and the image was smitten by the stone and lit 
terally swept from the earth. As the events he -a predicted 
have not transpired, of course no coincidence, by the fulfill- 
ment, can be affirmed between the fifth kingdom and any pow- 
er whatever, but show me a man or woman of observation that 
does not see plainly that the day is rapidly approaching when 
republicanism and monarchy shall close for the final struggle. 
Sound philosophy teaches that we cannot avoid a collision 
with monarchy in general. 

We are taught in this vision that the whole system of mon- 
archy was destroyed in the earth. - What will destroy it? One 
monarch will destroy another and subvert his kingdom, but he 
will only build up monarchy the stronger by so doing. What 
will destroy it, we ask? I know you reply in your own minds, 
Republicanism will yet give it its death blow; and it will 
deal the blow at such a point in the system that the whole 
fabric shall fall with a crash in hopeless ruin <#We can not, if 
we would, avoid a collision with monarchy. Its antipathy to 
democracy grows daily more intense, as it is obliged to be more 
watchful of its interests. America, it regards as the great 



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crater of melted lava, whose streams are reaching its hemis- 
phere; and it would be a matter of intoxicating delight to it if 
we were out of the way; and this feeling would lead it to put 
us out of the way if it could. It views with surly jealousy all 
our sympathy for the restless democracy struggling beneath it; 
and it is fully aware, that to possess a steady throne, America 
must be disorganized. It is stated that, in view of these very 
things, a proposition to destroy the American republic was pro- 
posed in Russia as early as 1818. Since the origin and success 
of organized democracy in America, the liberal principle has 
accumulated and grown with unprecedented rapidity in Europe, 
until France has driven monarchy from her soil, and the nobil- 
ity of England to-day are but ornamental figure-heads. The 
innate hostility between liberalism and monarchy will, from the 
very nature of the case, lead to exterminating hostility of one 
party or the other; both cannot exist together in the world on 
a large scale and be at peace. This collision with monarchy 
is more clearly foretold in succeeding descriptions of the fifth 
kingdom, and in all the predictions of Israel restored. The 
destruction of monarchy by Israel restored is fully predicted 
by Ezekiel in the destruction of Gog. Daniel also predicts it 
in the political judgment day of the ancient of days, and in the 
fall of the wilful king in Israel's country. John repeats the 
same thing in the sixth seal, in the reaping of the earth, and 
in the taking of the beast and prophet by the man on the white 
horse, etc. Again, the fifth kingdom was to spread over the 
whole earth, after the destruction of monarchy, of course no 
full coincidence can here be shown, as no fulfillment has been 
realized. But the capacity of our government for unlimited 
expansion is a quality inherent in its federative structure and 
representative policy. Its tendency is, also, to accumulate ter- 
ritorial power. This tendency, not arising from individual lust 
of power, cannot be mischievous, as when it springs from the 
monarchical power of aggrandizement. The tendeDcy with us 



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springs from a desire to fulfill a divine command; to fill the- 
earth, to till it, and subdue or civilize and refine and bless it. 
The easy yoke and gentle burden of our government is desired 
by almost all people, in preference to the chains of anarchy and 
iron collar of oppression. Our doctrine is, that if the people wish 
a government, they should have it in spite of kings. And if 
any people wish to be annexed to us, they should have their 
wishes gratified in spite of the hellish despotisms that crush 
them. Again, the fifth empire was to be established by the 
God of heaven. This is what is meant by the stone being cut 
out without hands, and nothing more than this. 

The prophet says, in his own interpretation, "the God of 
heaven shall set up a kingdom " "for as much as thou sawest 
that the stone was cut out without hands." This does not im- 
ply any miraculous power at all, but simply providential care 
in its origin and progress. All "the powers that be are ordain- 
ed of God" as well as the fifth empire. Yet the ^language 
plainly conveys the notion that it would be one that God would 
approve. Now, when we remember that America was kept 
from the world till an intelligent Christian people were ready 
to occupy it; when we see it made use of as a Christian refuge, 
till millions of Christian people were ready to organize a gov- 
ernment in it, and then remember the commitment of their 
cause to God universally as a people, and as a government 
their choice of God as king, their days of humiliation, fasting 
and prayer for civil and religious redemption, the conviction 
is irresistible, that God especially looked to the United States 
as a government peculiarly his own. The acts of congress 
were in the name of God, and at its first session it adjourned 
and on a solemn day of fasting and prayer, dedicated them- 
selves and their country to God; and on that memorable ('ay, 
the people pledged themselves to God and liberty. Individu- 
als and families, churches and colonies, prayed to God to 
establish a Christian nation of freemen. For this all the peo- 



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pie from Washington down, all humbly bowed themselves in 
prayer to God. As one has said, from Lexington to the victory 
tears flowed and prayers ascended in one universal, undying 
cry, all over the land, for the salvation of God. The bannered 
hosts inscribed upon their standards "Nil desperandum Christo 
Duce" " He that brought us over will help us through." "Our 
appeal is to heaven." The great declaration, " relying of 
Divine Providence we pledge our lives." When God had gone 
forth with our hosts and the war had closed and success had 
crowned our efforts, then said the noble Washington to con- 
gress, "I consider it an indispensable duty to close the last 
solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of 
our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and 
those who have the superintendence of them to His holy keep- 
ing" To "whom the president of congress, in behalf of that 
body, replied, "We join you in commending the interests of 
our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, beseech- 
ing Him to dispose the hearts and minds of its citizens to 
improve the opportunity afforded them of becoming a happy 
and respectable nation." Well might Mr. Baldwin say, in ref- 
erence to the above, " Nothing in the valedictories of Moses or 
Joshua is replete with nobler or sincerer consecration to Jeho- 
vah. He adds, "the people of the United States in the Revo- 
lutionary war, abandoned human monarchy forever, and chose 
Ooi for their king; and God accepted the office and set their 
feet upon a rock and established their goings and put a song of 
praise in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand." 

Lastly: The fifth kingdom was furiously hostile to monarch . 
This we all know is exactly descriptive of the character of 
the United States. We detest the very name of king and have 
no sort of respect for royalty, human crowns and scepters. It 
will be seen that the United States coincides with everychar- 
acteristic of which the fifth kingdom was to be possessed, down 
to the present time. The great and ess3ntial points which are 



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given to identify it, are the time of its rise, the source from 
which it was to come, the political character, it was to possess, 
its locality outside the limits of monarchy, and its direct hos- 
tility to Roman monarchy. With all these great marks of 
identity the United States perfectly coincides; and as perfect 
coincidence of persons, events and objects, with prophecy; is a 
perfect fulfillment of prophecy, it follows that the United Stales 
is the fulfillment of the fifth kingdom predicted by Nebuchad- 
nezzar's vision. 

" Land of the west! though passing brief 
The record of thine age, 
Thou hast a name that darkens all 
On history's wide page ! 

' Let all the blasts of fame ring out — 

Thine shall be loudest far ; 
Let others boast their satellites, 
Thou hast the Morning Star. 

" Thou hast a name whose characters 
Of light shall ne'r depart ; 
'Tie stamped upon the dullest brain, 
And warms the coldest heart ; 

" A war-cry fit for any land, 

Where freedom's to be won; 
Land of tne west ! it stands alone — 
It is thy Washington." 

Then how beautifully the patriotic Reid sings : 

" Oh ! joy to the world ! the hour is come, 

When the nations to freedom awake, 
When the royalists stand agape and dumb, 

And monarchs with terror shake ; 
Over the wall of majesty 

1 Upharsin' is writ in words of fire, 
And the eyes of the bondsman, wherever 'hey be, 

Arc lit with wild desire. 
Soon shall the thrones that blot the world, 

Like the Orleans, into the dust be hurled, 
And the word roll on like a hurricane's breath, 

Till the furtherest slave hears what it saith — 
Arise! arise!! Befrte! be free!!" 



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CHAPTER V. 

Mr. Baldwin says: " One remarkable peculiarity of prophecy 
is, that every very important prophetic event is repeated twice, 
or twice doubled, and that the symbolic prophecies are mostly 
accompanied additionally with an interpretation. This prin- 
ciple is especially exhibited in the universal prophecies of the 
political world, recorded by Daniel. The vision we are about 
to consider, goes over the very same field of the one we have 
just left. When Joseph interpreted Pharoah's double vision of 
the seven fat and seven lean kine, and the seven full and seven 
blasted ears, he says: "For that the dream was doubled unto 
Pharoah twice, it is because the thing is established by God 
and God will shortly bring it to pass." We are told by this 
Scripture that the symbolic prophecies are doubled because the 
thing is established, and established by God. So we see by this 
that God emphasizes the certain fulfillment of the symbolic 
prophecies by repeating them. 

This vision which is the second panorama of the six empires, 
is recorded in the seventh chapter of Daniel. It is prefaced 
with a prophetic introduction, which shows the entire compass 
of the prophecy. Daniel says: "I saw in my vision, and be- 
hold the four winds of heaven strove upon the great sea, and 
four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse from one an- 
other." The term seas in the prophecies symbolizes people, 
generally all the people of the world. I would refer you to 
Zech. 10-11; Hab. 3-8; and Rev. 7-3; where this signification 
is apparent. In this vision it also has this meaning. Daniel 
ells us in his interpretation that the four great beasts are four 
kingdoms, or four kings, and Hebrew scholars tell us that the 
original text could have been as properly rendered kingdoms. 
The two terms are interchangeable in the prophecies, and in 
fact, in common parlance, one implies the other. 

These four empires arose in different ages of the world, and 



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it is plain that the term sea embraces the whole world during 
their history, or the history of the people. The striving of the 
winds upon the sea represents commotions in the political 
world, and the striving of the four winds represents the univer- 
sality of these changes and agitations. Jeremiah explains the 
term " four winds." He says in forty-ninth chapter and thirty- 
eighth verse: "I will bring against Elam four winds, from the 
four extremities of the heavens." After this brief prophetic i 1- 
troduction, in which Daniel saw the commotion in the elements, 
which symbolized the commotions in the political world, or 
birth throes which preceded the rise of these great empires, he 
goes immediately on to describe the appearance of the four 
beasts, which illustrates the political character of the first four 
empires of the monarchy image, which we have just been con- 
sidering. The Prophet says: "The first was like a lion, and 
had eagle's wings; I beheld until the wings thereof were plucked 
and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand upon 
the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it." 

We have not space nor time to give a detailed list of the 
points of coincidence, nor is it necessary; we have just been 
over the four kingdoms, and spoken of their characteristics, 
and you have read of them in history; when we speak of the 
more prominent points of coincidence you can easily run them 
out in your own mind. This beast was a lion. A lion fitly 
represents the Babylonian empire. Jeremiah describes it as a 
lion in the 4th chapter, 6th verse, " the lion is come up from 
his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way;" 
this lion had wings. Ezekiel said of Babylon, " he shall fly as 
an eagle and shall spread his wings over Moab." In the 17th 
chapter he calls it " a great eagle with great wings." ^It being 
" liftec^up from the earth and made to stand upon the feet as 
a man and a man's heart given to it," shows a change of char- 
acter in the government, from a beastly to a human character, 
after the king's conversion. These characteristics are agreed 



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to by all writers, as identifying the winged lion with the first 
of the four great empires. Again, "and behold another beast, 
a second, like unto a bear, and it raised itself on one side; and 
it had three ribs in the mouth of it, between the teeth of it; and 
they said unto it arise, devour much flesh." This beast repre- 
S3nts the second kingdom in the series of the four. The Medo- 
Persian was the second universal empire in the series of uni- 
vjrsal empires of the world. Again, it raised itself on one 
s de; the double dynasty of Medes and Persians coincides with 
the two sides of the bear; and the final superiority and 
ascendency of the Persians over the Medes, coincides with the 
raising of one. side of the bear. Again, the three ribs in the 
mouth of the bear, finds their coincidence in the three vice- 
royalties into which the empire was divided, and of which 
Daniel speaks. He says, "it pleased Darius to set over the 
kingdom a hundred and twenty princes, which should be over 
the whole kingdom, and over these three presidents. Again, 
the conquests of the Medes and Persians were very extensive, 
and very cruel and destructive, and in this respect they jointly 
coincide with the "devouring of much flesh." Again, "After 
this I beheld, and lo! another like a leopard, which had upon 
the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four 
heads, and dominion was grvento it." This was the third 
beast, and it represented the third universal kingdom, which 
was the Macedonian. The four corners of the earth signify 
also the four wings of the earth, and wings signify powers or 
governments and also velocity. The leopard being a spot- 
ted beast, represents a mottled or mixed kingdom The 
leopard had four heads. Of course the kingdom was to be 
divided into four parts. This, with the four wings, is a double 
indication of the quadruple character the kingdom was to ex- 
hibit. We learn in the Apocalypse that a head signifies a kind 
of government. With these characteristics, you can see at a 
glance how perfectly the Macedonian empire agrees. 



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Again: " After this I saw in the night vision, and behold a 
fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and 
it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in piece, and 
stamped the residue with the feet of it, and it was diverse from 
all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns." When 
Daniel asked the angel to interpret this for him. " Thus, he 
said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the 
earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall 
devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down and break it in 
pieces. " The points of character to identify it in this period of 
its history are (1) It was to be the fourth universal empire; (2) 
it was to be exceeding powerful above all nations before it, (3) 
it was to diner from all the other kingdoms; (4) it was to sub- 
due the whole earth by violence; (5) its political complexion 
was to be of iron teeth and nails of brass. With these charac- 
teristics the Roman empire fully coincides. It was the fourth 
great kingdom. It was the most powerful nation that ever 
existed. It differed from all the great kingdoms before it in 
almost every great point of excellence. It subdued all nations, 
and made them tributary to its power. Its political complex- 
ion was Roman and Grecian, or iron and brass; the destroying 
policy is here represented by iron teeth, as it was represented 
by iron in Nebuchadnezzar's vision. Again the Prophet says, 
" I considered the horns and behold there came up behind 
(Mede Faber, &c.) them another little horn before whom there 
were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots, and be- 
hold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a 
mouth speaking great things." Then Daniel again applies to 
his celestial interpreter, and says, u I would know the truth of 
the fourth beast, and of the ten horns that were in his head, 
and of the other horn which came up, and before whom three 
fell, even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake 
very great things, whose look was- more stout than his fellows,' 
and the angel replied, " The ten horns out of this kingdom arc 



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ten kings (or kingdoms) that shall arise, and another shall 
arise behind them, and he shall be diverse from the first, and 
shall subdue three kings, and he shall speak great words 
against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the 
Most High, and think to change times and laws, and they shall 
be given into his hand, until a time, and times, and the divid- 
ing of a time. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take 
away his dominion to consume and destroy it unto the end." 
Now, we know that the body of the fourth beast represents the 
fourth kingdom in a united state, for so the Prophet says, this 
state of the kingdom was represented in the other vision by the 
iron alone before the clay came in. The divided state of the 
fourth kingdom there represented by ten toes is here repre- 
sented by the ten horns; for the Prophet says the ten horns are 
ten kings or kingdoms. The number ten was a representative 
number, and simply implied that the empire should be so 
effectually broken up that ten separate kingdoms should be 
formed out of it, though many more in time should appear. 
In looking into this vision we see the union of Church and 
State, which was represented in the other vision by the coming 
in of the clay with the iron, here represented with astonishing 
clearness by the rise of the little horn. 

I will not occupy further space here to give all the coinci- 
dences between this little horn kingdom and the papal power, 
you can easily run them out in your own mind. Messrs. 
Mede, and Faber, and others, in their translations tell us tha i 
this horn arose anterior to the ten, and before the divided stat 
of the Roman empire, at the very time of Church and Stair 
union. This little horn was to differ in political nature fro:., 
the other horns. "He shall be diverse from the first." It 
was to be a spiritual power as well as political. " Behold i 
this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth spea i - 
ing great things; his look was more stout than his fellows, 1 
etc. It was to speak great things and great words against the 



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Most High, and the saints were to be given into its hand. 
From this special oversight of the saints, and its political char- 
acter diverse from the other powers, and its eyes and mouth of 
a prophet, directing words against God, it is evident that this 
horn was principally a spiritual power, though blended with 
the political as is indicated by the union of the two eyes in the 
horn or head. He was to "think, to change times and laws;" 
this is plainly expres ;ive of a will on his part, to change polit- 
ical or spiritual policy, or both. You can compare these things 
in your own mind with the past history of the papal power 
The fact of the horn being a spiritual power, inclines us to the 
opinion that the laws and times given to it were of a spiritual 
nature, rather than political. Again, it was to "wear out the 
saints." The term saints — as we have seen — in the Old Testa- 
ment is synonymous with Christian in the New. It is remark- 
able that in all of Daniel's prophecies of the latter day, he 
never mentions the name of Israel or Judah, or anything aboui 
Jews after the destruction of Jerusalem. The wearing out of 
the saints implies a general persecuted condition, hence, the 
little horn was a persecuting ecclesiastical power. The Prophet 
then adds: " I beheld till the thrones were cast down." This 
expression synchronizes with the destruction of monarchy b} 
the stone kingdom in the other vision, and relates to the same 
time and event, and then he immediately adds, " and the An 
cient of days did sit." Now here, we are aware we must meet 
with settled prejudice. It is natural for those who do not makt 
the prophecies a particular study, and hence are wholly unac- 
quainted with the conventional rules of interpretation, to inter- 
pret the prophecies, and especially the symbolic prophecies, 
according to the apparent construction of the language, making 
part literal and part symbolical. A great many, in this passage, 
have been in the habit of referring the expression, ^Ancient oj 
days, to God. But this is a symbolic character like all the rest, 
and means Israel restored. One like the Son of Man came 






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with the clouds of heaven, and he came to the Ancient of days. 
Christ went to God; is now with him. Here, we are told, he 
comes from God and comes to the Ancient of days, and they — 
not the Ancient of days, nor God — but they (pronoun of mul- 
titude), the people of the Ancient of days, brought him near 
and the kingdom was given to him. We have the best author- 
ity that a man, as a symbol, always represents a government 
of some kind. Thus Judah is put for the Jewish nation, so 
also is Israel and Ephraim and Jacob. The great image of 
Nebuchadnezzar's vision also represents a body of government, 
and so also does the " Man of Sin." The two horned beast, or 
false prophet, in the book of Revelation, also symbolizes a 
nation So also a woman is put for an ecclesiastical body of 
government, and in general a human person represents any or- 
ganized body of power. The throne on which he sits symbol- 
izes a government or organized body of people. In the sym- 
bolic prophecies every word is fraught with the greatest and 
most important meaning. Kingdom and throne are used 
synonymous in the prophecies. Pharaoh says to Joseph, "only 
in the throne will I be greater than thou." We have seen that 
this symbolic personage sitting upon the throne represented a 
body of the people that had been an organization in ancient 
days, but now are restored, for the " Son of Man " comes to it, 
as he was to come to Israel restored, and it says here that "there 
was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all 
people, nations, and languages, should serve him; his dominion 
is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his 
kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." If this is not 
the Israel restored, which the prophets dwell upon so much, it 
can never be restored, for here is the same endless perpetuity 
",nd universality of empire and dominion that is always pre- 
dicted of Israel restored, and is said and can be said, of no 
other 'nationality. The Prophet is not speaking here of the 
rise of Israel restored; he does speak of its rise, you will see, 



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in the twenty-first and twenty-second verses, where he says: 
" I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and 
prevailed against them, until the Ancient of days came;" not 
did sit, but came; "and judgment was given to the saints of 
the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed 
the kingdom." 

The judgment which Daniel speaks of here in the tenth 
verse is a political judgment, but reads so much like the spir- 
itual judgment recorded in St. John in the 20th chapter of 
Revelation, that the casual reader blends the two. The 22d 
vjrse of this prophecy, that we are considering, tells us that 
tiis judgment was given into the hands of the saints, but th •• 
spiritual judgment of St. John is given into no hands but those 
of the Eternal Judge. One is at the ushering in of the millen- 
nium, the other (the spiritual) is at the close of that period. 
But after its rise the prophet continued to look prospectively 
into the future, for he says, "I beheld till" &c. He saw the 
Son of Man come and take the government. 

Now, there is nothing plainer than that Christ's second com- 
ing is a literal personal coming, just as certain as Christ was 
once on earth in person, just so certainly has he promised to 
come again in person. Both at the hour of his ascension, and 
at other times, has he promised it. We can only toucJ on 
these points here. We will treat of them more at length in 
another treatise. And it is equally plain that when he comes 
he is coming, to his Ancient of days, or to his own nationality 
of ancient days, restored in a Christian dress, or, in other 
words, Christ is coming to sit upon the throne of Israel restored 
to nationality. 

Mr. Baldwin says of the Ancient of days, " The name of the 
ancient of days implies its priority of existence, as a nationality 
in kind, it had ceased to exist, but now rises into being again, 
indeed the very coming of the ancient implies his absence from 
a position he once occupied. As it was in a Christian dress, 



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it is evident that it must have existed previously in a different 
dtyle. As there was no democracy in olden times, with which 
the ancient could be compared, except the Hebrew republic of 
ancient days, it is clear that the allusion is to that, and as the 
restoration of Israel to nationality in the latter day was prom- 
ised, and as that nationality was to be a Christian one, it is 
conclusive that the Ancient of days was the promised nation- 
ality of Israel restored — the democracy of Israel in a Christian 
dress." That the "Ancient of days symbolized an organized 
nationality of people possessing an overwhelming martial power 
is evident from the fact that the vision represents the ancient 
of days so destroying Roman Europe, this is a clear case. It 
also represents him as giving the kingdom to the Son of Man, 
after he had taken it. Now, the interpretation says, the saints 
shall take the kingdom, and the people of the saints shall 
possess it; the saints and the people of the saints are represented 
as synonymous with the throne and the ancient upon it. 
Again, the vision emphatically shows that these people of saints 
existed in a terrible and glorious organization, for all of the 
imagery representing them is most vividly organic. 

Again, the thousand thousands that ministered to the 
ancient, shows that an organic mass of people were united 
to execute one single design. But farther still, the work which 
the ancient had on hand, shows that he represents a national- 
ity. His work was to destroy a mighty empire; to overthrow 
Europe; to cast down thrones; to sit in judgment on over a 
hundred millions of people and to annihilate the empire church, 
as well as the Roman state of Europe. Such a work necessi- 
tates him to be a political fabric as well as a spiritual one. 

Now the prophet tells us plainly that church and state union 
should prevail, should practice and prosper, for a certain time. 
He says " and he shall speak great words against the Most 
High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and 
thi ik to change times and laws: they shall be given into his 



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o 

hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. " Mr. 
Baldwin has reckoned this time with great care, and on it he 
says as follows: "The truth of the whole matter of the papal 
power in Europe is this; the church was united to the State in 
the year 325 A. D. on the 19th of June. We place church and 
State union on the opening day of the council of Nice, because 
it was on that day that the first great ecclesiastical assembly 
met by order of the imperial decree and in the morning the 
emperor appeared in the assembly and in an oration proclaimed 
formally the powers he conferred upon them in the State. He 
stated, impliedly, that the decision of that assembly should be 
respected as law in the empire by imperial sanction; and from 
that day to this that speech he made has been the understood 
basis of church and State union. He proposed to settle church 
differences, and enforce church unity of faith, hoping, (says 
he) by my interference, a remedy might be applied to the evil, 
I sent for you all without delay — The various decrees of that 
beginning of iniquitous councils, were sanctioned by imperial 
authority, and on the first day of the council was formally 
begun a system of ecclesiastical despotism under which mil- 
lions have suffered martyrdom. It was the first formal meet- 
ing of civil and ecclesiastical power in union. " Mr. Baldwin 
makes the three and one-half times to be equal to 529,984 days, 
and then he adds, " if we date the origin of the papal power on 
the 19th of June 325 A. D. , the day of the session of the coun- 
cil of Nice, and its opening by the emperor, and then add to it 
529,984 days it brings us down exactly to the 4th day of July, 
1776. On that very day the United States declared their inde- 
pendence of civil and ecclesiastical monarchy, and that day 
was the first on which the church had been freed from the 
domination of civil and ecclesiastical power from the days of 
Constantine. " At that time the wearing out of the saints, the 
persecution of Rome ceased. At that time a nation was born 
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CHAPTER VI. 

There are some things so unequivocally predicted in Scrip- 
ture that no one can dispute them. Men may refuse to believe 
that the predictions will ever be fulfilled, and believers may 
differ as to the manner in which they will be fulfilled, but as 
to the fact of their being predicted in the sacred record, none 
will deny. Some of those things are the following: The res- 
toration of God's Israel to nationality; that that nationality 
will destroy all the kingdoms of this world, and will extend 
itself over the entire globe; that it will endure forever; that in 
destroying the kingdoms of this world it is to do it in one grand 
battle called the battle of "Armageddon;" that this great battle 
ushers in the millenial period; that Christ is to make a second 
advent to earth, when He is to take the reins of government in 
His own nationality, or in Israel restored, and is to reign forever 
and ever, and that He is to come at the millennial period; that 
the millenial period is stated in Scripture to be 1000 years, at 
the close of which a second Armageddon battle is fought, in 
which all that opposeth itself to God, in all his vast empire, is 
destroyed. The last Armageddon is the closing up of the 
millennial period and the perfection and consummation of 
all things, beyond which we have no revelation. The last 
Armageddon is recorded but once in Scripture. The first one 
is constantly the subject of prophetic prediction throughout the 
sacred volume. 

It is suggested in the following, and all similar passages 
(Isa. 66-16), " For behold the Lord will come with fire and 
with his chariot like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury 
and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his 
sword will the Lord plead with all flesh, and the slain of the 
Lord shall be many." And at the close of Daniel's fourth vis- 
ion, in speaking of the invasion of monarchy, he says, " He 
shall plant the tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the 



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glorious holy mountain yet he shall come to his end and 
none shall help him." It is recorded in Revelation, in the 
symbolic language, where Michael and his angels fought with the 
dragon and his angels, and after the victory ''there were great 
voices in heaven, saying. The kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he 
shall reign for ever and ever. 

Mr. Baldwin thinks the battle is to be fought in the United 
States, and as it is to be in a great valley, he places it in the 
valley of the Mississippi. But we must say, notwithstanding we 
have such authority as Dr. Baldwin against us, we think it will 
be fought in Europe. Dr. Baldwin cites the Scriptures where 
it says, referring to the leader of the forces of monarchy, a He 
shall fall on the mountains (State governments) of Israel." 
Again, "He shall plant the tabernacles of his palaces and 
come to his end, in the glorious holy mountain (nationality) 
between the seas," &c. 

We claim that in that day — which we believe is not very far 
distant — there will be several republican States in Europe con- 
federate with us, and as all the forces of the monarchy are there, 
they will march over onto the mountains of Israel (State gov- 
ernments of Israel) in Europe, and plant his tabernacle in the 
glorious holy mountains (nationalities) and come to his end 
between the two seas." 

Immediately after this great king-destroying battle, Christ 
appears the second time on earth. Now, as to the manner of 
his coming, whether a personal or spiritual coming, which 
is tantamount to saying a real or visionary appearing, 
there are differences of opinion. Some seem to think 
that a personal appearing of Christ, belittles the great event, 
of this second coming; but whoever reads this treatise 
will have quite the opposite opinion, we think. Nothing could 
so gloriously magnify and clothe with grandeur the stupendous 
event of God's peopling this planet; His establishing his king- 



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dom here after the fall of man; the war He inaugurated against 
rebellion; the conquest of the world by Christ himself; the over- 
throw of Satan and the powers of darkness; the recovery of the 
world to purity and good government; we say that nothing 
could so clothe it with grandeur and dignity and divine glory 
as Christ's triumphal return to it after the final victory. He 
is not coming alone, as he did the first time he came; as it 
were, stealing his way back; " He is coming with ten thousand 
of his saints." The New Jerusalem descends "from God out 
of heaven," and makes the place of his feet glorious; then 
Christ comes with the hosts (clouds) of heaven, the millions of 
His redeemed. It is the great coronation day, when Christ 
takes the kingdom to reign forever as Lord of lords and King 
of kings. " Hallelujah! Glory to God in the highest! Shout 
angels, shout, and loudest ye redeemed." We hold that when 
Christ said he was coming again, that he meant as he had 
once come in personal reality; so he was in reality coming in 
person again. We believe this is what the angels meant that 
stood by at His ascension and said to his wrapt disciples as they 
gazed after him. "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up 
into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you 
into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him 
go into heaven." And in 24th chapter of Matthew, he cautions 
us not to be deceived on this point. He says if any man shall 
say unto you, that he has come; " Lo, here is Christ, or there, 
believe him not." Should they say, "behold he is in the 
desert, go not forth, behold he is in the secret chamber, believe 
it not; for as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth 
even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man 
be." He is not speaking here of the Spirit. When he left us 
he said he would send us the Spirit, and he should testify of 
him, and should remain with us until he comes again, and the 
Spirit did come on the day of Pentecost, and is with us to-day 
4S every Christian can testify; but here he is speaking of per- 



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sonal identity, and adds the figurative language, wherever the 
carcass is there will the eagles be gathered together," and 
again, " every eye shall see him," &c. 

There is equally as much difference of opinion in reference 
to the period of his advent, whether during the millennium, or 
at its close, or at the beginning. We hold that He comes soon 
after the great battle of Armageddon and his coming ushers in 
the millennium. We think Daniel puts his coming at this 
point of time. He says, " I beheld till the thrones were cast 
down." He continues to look into the future until he saw the 
great battle of Armageddon fought: Saw the nationality of 
Christian Israel destroy monarchy: Saw the present system of 
self-government, the present organization of democracy in the 
earth hurl the thrones into the dust. And then he immediately 
saw one like the Son of Man come to Israel restored and they 
gave him the kingdom. And he goes immediately on and 
describes it as the millennial kingdom. He says, "that all peo- 
ple, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is 
an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and his 
kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." If this is not the 
millennial kingdom, it crowds the millennial kingdom out of 
the earth, for it is universal and endures for ever and ever, and 
Christ comes at its introduction. And again, in the 20th chap- 
ter of Revelation you will find the millennial period is stated 
to be just one thousand years in duration, and those that are 
His are to be there and are expressly said to reign with Christ 
a thousand years of millennial reign, which they could not do 
if Christ was not there at the ushering in of the millennium. 
Again, "immediately after the tribulation of those days, shall 
the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 
and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the 
heaven shall be shaken, and then shall appear the sign of the 
S6n of Man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth 
mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the 



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clouds of heaven with power and great glory." It is hardly- 
necessary to say that this language is symbolical for notwith- 
standing our grandmothers have taught us that the meteoric 
shower a number of years since, was the falling of the stars in 
fulfillment of the prediction of Christ, yet there are none of us 
but what know that if one of those bright luminaries that we 
see sparkling in the far off fields of space were to fall upon this 
planet, it would bury us almost below resurrection power, for 
some of them are many thousand times larger than this earth. 

But this language is not so poor as that, it has a richness 
and a grandeur, and a sublimity that belongs to the symbolic 
language of scripture. Heaven, as a symbol, means the place 
of the church on earth, and earth, as a symbol, means the 
place of the state or the civil power. The sun symbolizes the 
state or civil power, and the moon symbolizes the church. A 
star, almost invariably, symbolizes a prince or ruler; as Bal- 
aam says, "there shall come a star out of Jacob and a scepter 
shall arise out of Israel." 

Hebrew poetry where one line explains the foregoing. Our 
Savior in the text quoted, is speaking of the battle of Arma- 
geddon, the destruction of monarchy and his own speedy com- 
ing, he says, " after the tribulations of those days the sun shall 
be darkened," there shall be trouble in the State, national dark- 
ness, political troubles, not in the United States, but in the 
monarchical or false government, those that are to be overthrown. 
" The moon shall not give her light." The established Churches, 
Church and State union, the Church shall not give her light- 
" and the stars shall fall," the princes or rulers shall fall at the 
fall of monarchy. Daniel says, " I beheld till the thrones were 
cast down " " and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.'' 
All established churches shall be shaken down together with 
monarchy, but many of their members shall be saved, and 
then he adds, " and then shall appear the sign of the Son of 
Man in heaven." This heaven is symbolic and means the 



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place of the church, the sign shall be here, and all the tribes 
of the earth shall mourn when they see the sign; and then 
they shall " see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven 
with power and great glory." As soon as monarchy is de- 
stroyed; as soon as the "stars fall," that is, the princes and 
their thrones are cast down; as soon as the great battle of Ar- 
mageddon is fought. The bright and morning star is seen in 
the heavens, and a light bursts from the East — the place of 
light — and streams athwart the heavens, for the sun that set 
in blood on Calvary has arisen to set no more. The desire of 
nations has come at last; but how unlike his first coming; he 
comes no more the babe of Bethlehem cradled in a manger, 
clinging to the bosom of his outcast mother. No more pursued 
in his helpless infancy by the inhuman Herod; no more the 
unassuming man, traveling about Judea on foot, with his plain 
attire and seamless coat; no more dragged about by the Jeru- 
salem mob, buffeted, spit upon, scourged and crucified. Now 
he comes wearing the livery of heaven, and upon his vesture is 
a name, " Lord of Lords, and King of Kings." He says he comes 
" with the clouds of heaven." If this is symbolic, a cloud sym- 
bolizes a vast concourse of people as " a great cloud of wit- 
nesses." Think you not he is coming as Moses said he should 
come, "with ten thousand of his saints," and his legion of an- 
gels? Are not these the clouds of heaven that he is coming 
with? What think you? I cast my eye back to the days of 
his humiliation, and I see him approaching Jerusalem " meek 
and riding upon an ass," a great throng follows him and they 
spread their garments in the way before him, and " they that 
went before and they that followed, cried, saying, hosanna to 
the son of David, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the 
Lord, blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh 
in the name of the Lord, hosanna in the highest." His per- 
secutors and enemies say, behold the whole world has gone 
after him. No, not the whole world at that time, but I cast a 



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prophetic eye into the future and I see him approaching the 
gates of the New Jerusalem with a shining retinue; it is a vast 
throng, a great cloud, no man can number them. The earth is 
yet damp and red with the blood of slaughtered enemies; the 
great battle of Armageddon is fought, and the triumphant host 
approaches the gates of pearl, and we hear a voice from the 
vast multitude like the sound of many waters saying, "lift up 
wur heads, ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, 
and the King of Glory shall come in." Then the cautious sen- 
tinel (cautious, because of the recent invasion) answers, " who 
is this King of Glory?" Then the multitude replies again, " the 
Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle; lift up your 
heads, O ye gates, even lift them up ye everlasting doors, and 
the King of Glory shall come in." The cautious sentinel once 
more asks "who is this King of Glory?" Then the multitude 
again shouts, "the Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory." 
The doors fly up and the- pearly gates swing wide, and the 
Lord of hosts and his cloud of saints enter. 

" Now see! 
'Tis pomp, the glorious morn ; the second birth 
Of heaven and earth ! Awakening nature hears 
The new creating word, and starts to life, 
In every brightened form, from pain and death 
Forever free!" 

We believe his triumphant entry into old Jerusalem, was a 
type of his glorious entry into the New Jerusalem. The lamb 
smoking on Jewish altar, never found its antetype in the Lamb 
of God on Calvary more completely than will that rejoicing 
throng — though a faint representation of it — find its antetype 
in His glorious Godlike approach to Christian Israel's nation- 
ality on coronation day. This is glorious to contemplate; more 
glorious to behold its realization. But, my dear reader, we are 
to be there in person, we are to help swell the vast ranks of the 
King of Glory as they enter in through the pearly gates; pass 



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under the triumphal arches; pass through the gold-paved cit} r ; 
behold her bulwarks; see the King in his beauty; walk out 
nnr'tr the regenerated heavens; set these feet upon the regen- 
ts l uted earth, and breathe, for the first time, the pure untainted 
atmosphere of mellinnial perfection. But, alas! Are there 
any who shall be cast off as unworthy to share in these glories? 
Yes; there are some who are " aliens to the commonwealth of 
Israel and strangers to the covenant of promise." God grant, 
that our readers may be found there and enter in through the 
gates into the city, and "behold the King in His beauty," 
for " without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and 
murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a 
lie." We might here speak of the probable nearness of these 
events to our day. We do not propose to prophesy, for we 
are not a prophet, but the world is becoming very expectant, 
as they were just before His first appearance on earth, If any 
one can tell me when those signs of which Christ speaks in the 
24th chapter of Matthew, when they begin, when the first one 
appears; we can tell you within a very few years when Christ 
will appear, for he there says, they shall transpire in rapid 
succession, and all be accomplished, together with his coming,, 
in one generation. It is a peculiarity of the Scriptures, that 
the inspired writer in narrating chronological events, uses the 
present tense. When Daniel gave the history of kingdom 
after kingdom, until he had reached the broken or divided 
state of Rome, in the remote future 2,500 years from his own 
day, then as he prophetically stood in that far distant age, and 
surveyed the political world, and saw many kings reigning in 
their respective kingdoms, he says, "in the days of these 
kings," j&c. You see he uses the present tense. « So our 
Savior, when he had related sign after sign, which preceded 
his second coming, then says, "Verily I say unto you, this gen- 
eration shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled; heaven 
and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." 



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In our next treatise we shall take up the wonderful symbolic 
prophecies of the Book of Revelation; that wonderful prophetic 
imagery, which to one who has no key to them, sounds like the 
bombastical ravings of a maniac. But to one who compre- 
hends the prophetic theme, and can see the application of his 
God-like symbols, it is the grandest, the most beautiful, the 
most sublime imagery ever thrown upon the mental canvas. 

In taking up the Revelations, when speaking of the sixth and 
seventh trumpet periods, we shall have occasion to speak more 
particularly of the signs preceding his coming, and in what 
age of the prophetic history we are living. We are doubtless 
not far from those great political events which immediately 
preceded the millennium. Christ labors hard to impress us 
with the fact, that when we see the signs which he has just 
been speaking of, the events just preceding and following the 
great battle of Armageddon, that it is near at hand, he says, 
"now learn a parable of the fig tree; when his branch is yet 
tender, and putteth forth leaves, we know that summer is at 
hand." Then he adds, "So likewise, ye, when ye shall see a,l 
these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." 

" He comes! He comes ! the Judge severe ! 
The seventh trumpet speaks him near." 

' ' From heaven angelic voices sound ; 
See the Almighty Jesus crown'd! 
Girt with omnipotence and grace, 
And glory decks the Saviour's face." 

" Then He descending on His throne, 
Shall claim the kingdoms for His own ; 
The kingdoms all obey His word, 
And hail Him their triumphant Lord." 

" Shout, all the people of the sky ; 
And all the saints of the Most High ; 
Our Lord, who now His right obtains, 
Forever and forever reigns." 



THE SEQUELA. 



GOD'S PURPOSES IN THE M1TERML UNIfERSE AND 
THE REASON OF WORLDS. 

It is apparent to every thinking mind, that all of the material 
universe had a beginning; and, also, there was a time when 
each and every finite intelligence, whether in heaven or in 
earth, began their being. Hence, in carrying out this course 
of reasoning, we find that there was a time in the eternity past 
— however remote — when God was alone in the universe, or s?o 
to speak, when God and space were absolute. There was no* 
an intelligent being to hymn his praises, or enjoy his goodness. 
No seraph's wing fanned the eternal throne. No angelic hosts 
saluted the ear of Jehovah with their hallelujahs. No blood- 
washed throng of redeemed spirits encircled his throne rilling 
the vaults of heaven with the song of redemption. 

Not a blazing sun with its fiery track; not a star looked 
down from the empyrean heights. Not a teeming world rolled 
in the voids immense. All was silence! All was God! No 
intelligent beings to sing his praise or reciprocate his love and 
goodness. And no forces had as y?t gone out from him commis- 
sioned to form the material universe. But God is infinite good- 
ness. If there is one of His perfections that shines brighter 
than another, it is His goodness. The Bible seems to put con- 
siderable stress on this perfection, the goodness of God. 

When Moses asked to behold his person, he says: "I will 
make all my goodness pass befo™ thee" — as though he had dis^ 



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played all the glory of his person when he had displayed all 
his goodness. And as He passed before Moses He proclaimed, 
" The Lord, tjie Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffer- 
ing and abundant in goodness and truth." Now it is the chief 
characteristic of goodness to diffuse itself. It ignores all sel- 
fishness. It is benevolence and love embodied and alive, full of 
plans for the benefit of others, and must be actively at work to 
make them effective. Its expansive nature will not let it rest 
in itself. It must have objects upon which to act; sentient, 
intelligent beings that can appreciate and reciprocate this good- 
ness and bring some return to God in praise and adoration. 
Hence, we behold another period in the annals of eternity past 
when God first sent forth the creative fiat, and those pure 
spirits, the angelic hosts, circled around his throne with harp 
and voice attuned to his praise. 

And when we say they were created from a spark of his own 
intelligence, we will doubtless meet with no opposition, no* 
even a severe criticism. But when we come to speak of the 
material universe originating in an analogous way, we may 
hear the cry of materialism, or worse if possible. But as we 
have good company both in the scientific and theological world, 
we shall fearlessly proceed. 

And in pursuing the subject we come to another period, when 
God purposed to fill this space infinite with beautiful worlds 
and flaming suns. Not simply and alone to display to these 
intelligent angelic beings which he had created, his power and 
wisdom, and goodness, and perfection of beauty, etc. Though 
we are told that these angelic beings, "the sons of the morn- 
ing" of creation, shouted together and encircled Jehhvalvs 
throne with a volume of praise as they saw these beautiful 
worlds forming, for, "The first archangel never saw so much 
of God before." And the Psalmist could truthfully sing, "The 
heavens declare the glory of God and the firniameut sheweth 
his handiwork," etc. And they do in very deed, proclaim with 



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thousand tongues to all his creatures the existence of that God 
tha, formed them, and reflect his glory. 

i( Forever singing as they shine, 
The hand that formed us is Divine." 

But it was not for this purpose that he made the worlds, it 
was on a higher and broader and more noble plan, a plan that 
becomes the dignity of a God. It was to people them with 
intelligent life ; not in the condition we find ourselves here on 
this planet, sin-cursed in open rebellion against him, a world 
of sin, sorrow and suffering and all the wretchedness that sin 
brings upon intelligent moral beings, this was not his original 
purpose, his plans have been broken in upon by an enemy, but 
not defeated as you shall know before we are done with the sub- 
ject. But the question arises and should be considered here 
before we go further, how did he create the world? 

As some think they see a discrepancy between science and 
the cosmagony of Moses recorded in Genesis. We would re- 
mark here that we have nothing to do with the wild hypoth- 
esis of some of our scientists but only with true science, and all 
true science throws light upon God's revelation and aids great- 
lv in its interpretation, and Bishop Warren, has shown con- 
clusively that God's revelation aids materially in the discover- 
ies of science. 

Now when we come to consider the manner in which God 
formed the worlds, and is forming them for the same forces. are 
operating now that have been operating in the past, we find 
that science teaches us that all things are from a gaseous state. 
That this is so is apparent on every hand. If man by a chem- 
ical process can turn solids to a liquid and from a liquid to a 
gaseous condition and from a gaseous back to a solid, it is 
proof that the great Alchemist of the universe has done so and 
s L ill works in that way. Take for instance your quicksilver, 
put it into your crucible kindle the fire under it and it will 



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pass into the atmosphere in the form of gas, let that gas as it 
rises from the crucible pass through a pipe, insert the end of 
the pipe in cold water and you will throw it back into a liquid 
state, then take it to Montreal or Alaska in the dead of winter 
and you can pound it out like lead or silver in a solid state 

Water is said to be a mineral because it will pass from a 
solid to a gaseous under such a low pressure, and the freezing 
point solidifies. But this fact was most forcibly illustrated in 
the lixiviation process, by which they worked their ores in the 
reduction works at the " Silver King " mine in Arizona, by 
which process they threw the metal in those ores into a liquid 
state. We do not understand the processes, but we saw the result, 
— it ran off from the tubs in the water, clear and beautiful, as 
limpid as the water of a mountain spring. By their chemical 
processes they brought it to a plastic state, about the consist- 
ency of soft dough or putty, they then put it in an oven to 
harden. There some of the silver was doubtless lost by being 
thrown into a gaseous state by the heat, as is proven by the 
fact that gas < scaping around the iron doors, and through the 
cracks in the furnace, the silver would form as it came in 
contact with the air, in the peculiar formations in which we 
find it in its original deposits in the mines. No one has been 
able to explain why it always takes those peculiar forms, not 
even Mr. Tilden; we mean the beautiful fern formation and 
peculiar wire formation, &c. They were finally compelled to 
give up the lixiviation processes. The character of the ores so 
changed as they went deeper into the mine, that in passing 
through the roasters the mineral was thrown into a gaseous 
state, and passed off into the atmosphere through the smoke- 
pipes, and the mineralogist told us that with pipe enough he 
could still arrest it and bring it back to a solid and save his 
silver. He also told us of visiting a mine where the chemical 
processes in the great laboratory of nature were still being car- 
ried on, and the silver was forming from a gaseous state. 



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So we trace matter leyond our present power of vision. How 
many states and conditions beyond the gaseous before it 
reaches the spiritual we know not, but we know that some- 
where in the unseen and the unseeable is its original and 
eternal state. For God helps us on this point when he says 
" The things that are seen are temporal, but the things that 
are unseen are eternal." We believe that we shall yet find 
that spirit is the only true substance, the original substance 
from which all substance has originated. The spirit world is 
the world of causes and this is the world of effects. 

Dr. Wilford Hall, of New York, whose scientific works mark 
an era in the history of science greater than the discoveries of 
any scientist of this age, or, perhaps we can say, of any other 
age, has had the boldness to proclaim the doctrine, that all 
things, whether matter or mind, emanated from God's spiritual 
essence, and he has brought down the vengeance of two worlds 
— the scientific and theological — upon his head, but I believe 
he will, Sampson-like, slay them hip and thigh. He perhaps 
is not substantially correct in all things. He does not claim 
infallibility, but he has done more for true science and revela- 
tion than any man of the present day. Noble man, may Gcd's 
blessing be upon him! 

It was not necessary that we should trace matter back to its 
origin for our purposes here; nor as far back as Bishop Warren 
takes it, to its spirit origin. He says, " Into what more ethereal, 
and we might almost say, spiritual forms, matter may be 
changed we cannot tell." And again he says, "We ask in vain 
What is matter? No man can answer. We trace it up 
through the worlds till its increasing fineness, its growing 
power and possible identity of substance seem as if the next 
step would reveal its spirit origin," and he evidently holds that 
God's word teaches it, for he adds, "What we but hesitatingly 
stammer the word boldly asserts." And Joseph Cook, in 
his 156th Monday lecture, says, "Look first at the fact that 



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matter originated in the unseen universe. Scientific theism 
has always had a rigt^t, but in our age it has a new right to 
assert this unflinchingly in the face of atheism, agnosticism 
and materialism." Again, " The law of continuity requires us 
to go back step by step from subsequent to antecedent, so that, 
when we reach the organization of atoms, and of their group- 
ings and motions, we come at last to the unseen universe, to 
the substance of absolute and infinite being, to the mind and 
will of the omnipresent God. Having traced back matter to 
the unseen universe, let us now trace back natural life to the 
same source." And again he says, in lecture No. 168, March 
10th, 1884, " Lotze taught that, from the idea of matter, life 
and soul cannot be explained; but that, from the idea of spirit 
all material properties may be deduced." He makes spirit the 
ultimate substance of all things. 

The supersensible reality underlying both matter and finite 
mind is God. * * * " Through the English and 
Scottish philosophy have led you up, little by little, under dif- 
ferent circumstances, to the unseen universe. In it we have 
found the origin of matter, motion and life." 

But we will not go as far back as this; we will take it in the 
gaseous state, then you can adopt the nebula hypothesis, or any 
hypothesis you may chose except the pure evolution theory. 

Somewhere back of -a gaseous condition, was the chaotic 
state, must have been, as all material substances take the glob- 
ular form when suspended in space; the raindrop conforms 
to this principle, or law. 

The planets when formed are found in a state of incandes- 
cence, but the tendency in everything in space is to cool. 
After long periods of cooling they form a solid crust on the sur- 
face. The cooling goes on until the crust is thick enough to 
support vegetation, the lowest forms first, the phinet now be- 
gins to attain to a life period, or in other words, is becoming 
capable of sustaining life. It will eventually pass beyond its 



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life period. Our moon is an illustration of it; it has become an 
opaque body — cold and frigid. Jupiter has not attained to its 
life period. It is in a state of incandescence, and astronomers 
estimate that it will take many millions of years of cooling to 
form a crust upon its surface, then the cooling will progress 
much slower until it reached its life-sustaining condition. 
Beautiful venus is doubtless just emerging into its life period. 
It has water and an atmosphere, and many things very similar 
to our planet earth. 

The planet called earth upon which we live was the first to 
attain to a life period. And this proposition leads us i:ito 
theology again. Here God commenced the stupendous plan of 
peopling the planets, and consequently here he placed that new 
order of beings, before unknown in his moral universe, spirit- 
ual, moral beings united to a material body to capacitate them 
for living in a material world. And in this new order of beings 
is found that connecting link between the material and spirit- 
ual world, that profound mystery of mysteries, the union of 
spirit and matter. Man is the desideratum of the universe, he 
fills the wide gap between the seen and the unseen. He was 
placed here a pure, holy and happy being, perfectly happy 
because perfectly holy. He was placed here in a state of pro- 
bation and had the federal head of the race stood their proba- 
tion, each individual member of the r^ace as they ended their 
probation would have been translated from this sphere some- 
thing in the manner that Enoch and Elijah were, though their 
translation was a type of something else brought out farther on 
in these papers. The scripture never types anything in the 
past, all their figures and types find their antetypes in the 
future. 

But the evil influence that had crept into God's moral gov- 
ernment sometime in the past, approached these happy beings, 
the latest of God's intelligent creation, and accomplished their 
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of our first parents, and much very irreverent speculation even 
outspoken censuring of God for creating a pair that he knew 
would fall and bring so much sorrow and suffering into the 
world. But it did not matter with God's plans whether they 
stood or fell. God knew what he would do in either case. If 
they had endured their probation Satan would have applied 
his temptations to each individual member of the race the 
same as he does. now, and when he had secured ones fall, they 
would have fallen without remedy for there would have been 
no Savior provided in that case, so Satan would have won over 
as many souls in one case as in the other, there would have 
been no difference in that respect. But as for me, I thank God 
that the case is as it now is, for now if I fall a hundred times 
in a day I can look up to a blessed Savior and rise again. 
That this was the first planet God peopled with this new order 
of beings stands to reason. The Devil was already in the bat- 
tle field and would be sure to assault the first created, 
knowing that that whole order of beings were secured if he 
secured the representative head. The vain talk of some peo- 
ple about the Savior dying for other worlds and people, as 
though the Devil waited until God had peopled a great num- 
ber of the planets and then started on a very successful tour, 
kicking over what the Lord had done, and reaching this 
planet when there was but two on it and found a very easy 
conquest, and, — according to their theory — the blessed Savior 
has been going from world to world, for perhaps millions of 
years, passing through the awful suffering and death for fallen 
beings, following up the trail of the old Serpent. This seems 
too silly, yea, too God dishonoring to need refutation. ^ 

Nay ^fallen Lucifer dealt his severest blow against God's 
moral government in the earthly Paradise. We cannot think 
that the Devil ever hoped to overreach infinite wisdom, or over- 
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to do, but he was instigated then, as now, by his totally de- 
praved heart to do all the evil he can to God's creatures and to 
God's moral government, but God has so overruled it, and 
made the wrath of devils, as well as "the wrath of men to praise 
him," that all that hell has done against him shall only help 
him to consummate his plans and secure his government on a 
firmer foundation. 

God says he will get this evil out of His moral government 
and confine it to its own place, where " it shall not hurt nor 
destroy in all His holy mountain" (holy government); moun- 
tain in the prophecies means government. And he will yet 
accomplish his purposes with the human race and the material 
worlds of his universe. He will yet people the planets and 
people them, too, with loyal subjects, holy, happy beings, as he 
intended at the first. He will not have any more such scenes 
enacted as has been enacted on this planet. It used to be a 
mystery with us why God could not people a world without it 
resulting in such a ruinous state of things as we behold here, 
and why he should suffer a race of intelligent beings to exist 
one day where there is so much suffering and sorrow and afflic- 
tion, so much injustice and oppression, etc., if His plans were 
circumscribed to the narrow limits of this little planet. But 
God's plans are as broad as the universe. 

We used to think that the Scriptures used extravagant lan- 
guage. When God started his kingdom in the world in the form 
of the little Hebrew republic and church in the land of Canaan, 
he promised to increase them until they could not be numbered. 
He said they should be "as the stars of the sky in multitude, and 
as the sand which is by the seashore, innumerable." The jews 
understood these promises to apply to carnal Israel, the Hebrew 
Church and State, but they were intended for Christian Israel, 
when the spiritual seed of Abraham should not only possess 
the world, but worlds. 

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numbeied, and when Christian Israel shall possess the whole 
world — which is unequivocally promised — we presume the cen- 
sus of the world can then be taken. And yet there will be a 
time when God's Israel will be beyond the computation of 
finite minds. When God first organized His people in the wild- 
erness if you had stood upon mount Peor with Balaam you 
would have seen Israel camped in the valley of Moab, 3,000,000 
of souls, and as you beheld God's presence with them in the 
majestic pillar of cloud upon the tabernacle, you might have 
been made to exclaim with Balaam in the sublime language,. 
" How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O 
r srael. * * * The Lord, his God is with him, 

and the shout of a king is among them." Again, when Christ 
sits at the head of the millennial kingdom and rules the world ? 
if you could be raised to some amrel tower, and like Jesus on 
the Mount of Temptation, behold all the kingdoms of the world, 
you would behold many hundred millions; but when the "de- 
sire of all nations" has come and brought with him the per- 
fection of God's kingdom on earth, and God's people like the 
pure angelic spirits shctll have the privilege of God's universe, 
chen look at the lights that adorn the hill of heaven at night, 
and behold Israel's camp-fires. 

Perhaps before we close we should say something about the 
doctrine of the destructionists. Those who think they see it 
taught in revelation that our planet is to be annihilated, and 
talk very eloquently about the "wreck of matter and the crash 
of worlds." But perhaps I can't answer this strange doctrine 
more effectually in the same space than to quote from Dr. 
Baldwin. He says, in commenting on the following Scripture, 
as follows: "The earth and heaven fled away; and I saw a 
new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first 
earth were passed away, and there was no more sea." This is 
literal, because the term sea, in the connection in which it 
stands, cannot be made to receive a symbolic sense. This was 



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the long promised regeneration of the globe. Some severe 
obstructionists have been advocates of the total annihilation 
of the globe, from a strange misconception of the meaning of 
this, and other passages of Scripture; but no theory can be 
more destitute of truth and good sense. The truth is, the 
destruction of the present heaven and earth is necessary to 
accomplish the promise of the full glory of God. by prepar- 
ing the globe for the erection of the throne of David and of 
God upon it forever. We will briefly meet the theory on its 
merits. It is affirmed that the heaven and earth that are to be 
destroyed, signify the globe This we deny most positively. 

1. The term earth has at least twelve significations, and 
the term world has twenty-two Now, it is not by any means 
necessary to give the signification of globe, to the term earth; 
whenever it is used, and especially when the context does 
not require it. 

2. The term heaven and earth is used by Moses, and most 
certainly do not signify the globe; for he expressly defines 
them to signify only parts of the mundane system. Thus, 
he says, "God called the dry land earth, and God called the 
firmament (or atmosphere) heaven," "and the gathering together 
of water called the seas." Here is as clear a definition of 
these terms, by inspiration itself, as could be desired. Now, 
as it is illogical and falsifying to give the terms of an author 
a different sense fiom that which he has expressly given them 
so it is falsifying God's word to insist that he means the 
destruction of the globe, when he speaks of the destruction 
of heaven and earth, and sea, which he had defined to be but 
exterior parts of the globe 

3 St. Peter, who gives a description of the heavens and 
earth, literally by fire, teaches plainly that he does not mean 
a destruction of the globe, but only a renewal of it by fire; and 
Moses in his description of the destruction of the earth by the 
deluge, concurs with our views. Thus, he says, "I will destroy 



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them with the earth;" "a flood to destroy the earth." Peter 
says: " By the word of God, the heavens were of old, and the 
earth standing out of the water, and in the water, whereby the 
world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; 
but the heavens and earth which are now, by the same word, 
{ re kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judg- 
ment.'' Nothing can be plainer than that the old heavens and 
earth before the flood, perished, and that the globe did not; 
and nothing can be plainer than, "that the heavens and earth 
which are now," are as much different from the globe as were 
the heavens and earth before the flood. It is as clear as light, 
that the heavens and earth destroyed by water have the same 
signification as the term heaven and earth, which are to be 
destroyed by fire. So that the destruction announced by Peter 
has no sort of reference to a destruction of the globe, but only 
to its external organization. Besides, he says, "according to 
his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth." 

Now, the only special promise upon this subject, was given 
by Isaiah, and he locates them upon the present globe. It 
therefore follows, that when Christ said, "the heaven and earth 
shall pass away," he referred to the present heaven and earth, 
erected upon the globe, and not the globe itself. 

4. "The reason for the passing away of the heaven and 
earth. There is good sense in every act of God, and hence 
there is a good common sense reason for the destruction of the 
present heaven and earth, and that reason is as obvious as it is 
sensible; it is to restore the world to its pristine glory. The 
war which God declared in the beginning, was for the conquest 
of the world; to restore man upon earth to subjection to his 
government. Now, the curse upon the ground was a great act of 
war, to aid in the subjugation of the race; and the curse on the 
earth was a double one; the first at the Fall and the second by 
the Flood. After the conquest of man, this curse would, 
according to the promise at the beginning, be removed; and 



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this removal would require as great a change in the heaven an< ] 
earth, at such renewal, as took place when they were change! 
at the Fall and the Flood; that is, to remove the curse, the 
heaven and earth would need to be removed or changed. Ths 
promise of the final removal of the curse, on all things, was 
made at the first, and repeated in all subsequent ages. The 
removal of the curse of death implies a resurrection; and the 
removal of the curse on the heavens and earth, implies their 
removal, and the erection of a heaven and earth without mper 
fection, and not the annihilation of the globe, which would ba 
the severest punishment ever inflicted on it. 

5. The annihilation of the globe implies that God enter- 
tains spite against inanimate matter, which is most absurd to 
suppose. 

6. God has engaged in war for six thousand years, to estab- 
lish his kingdom on the globe. Now, what good sense is there 
in fighting for ages, through the most awful scenes of affliction, 
to regain a revolted province on purpose to annihilate it as 
soon as it is possessed? Tell us, ye wise! Say, is there reason 
in the baseless assumption you make? God swore to Moses 
that the whole earth should be full of his glory; and the pro- 
phets say that it shall then endure forever. Does this look 
like annihilation of the globe? Does it not look like its regen- 
eration at the final "restitution of all things?" 

7. John says, that after the old heaven and earth were gone, 
that the New Jerusalem descended to the new earth, and to 
the region where the curse had prevailed. The words, " there 
shall be no more death, neither shall there be any more pain; 
for the former things are passed away," are applicable to a 
world where these things had prevailed, and from which they 
were banished, and no 4 , to a world where they had never been 
known. " Behold, I - akd all things new," can not refer to the 
third heaven, but oniy to a world where every thing needed 
reorganization. " There shall be no more curse," applies only 



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to a world where the curse had prevailed. But, again: All 
these things were prophecies, to be fulfilled after the days of 
John, and they must refer to this globe, and not to the third 
heaven, which existed before John's day. Besides this, the 
New Jerusalem came down from God, out of heaven, to men, 
and men did not go up to it; which shows, again, that this 
globe was to be the throne of God and the Lamb. Daniel, and 
Isaiah, and all the prophets, make the world redeemed to abide 
forever; and after the millennium is ended, and the judgment 
is passed, John shows the state of the world in the full blaze 
of celestial glory. Who ever heard of Christ's returning from 
the earth after his second advent to it? And who has not read 
that the tabernacle of God shall be with men after the New 
Jerusalem descends, and that they shall reign with God and 
the Lamb forever and ever in the New Jerusalem, and in the 
heaveng and earth, from which the curse had been removed? 
The truth is, the regenerated globe is to be the battle monu- 
ment of eternity; the seat of government of Jesus, head over 
all things; the holy of holies of the universe. As. the believers 
shall come from the dust, where the curse had laid them, and 
shall wear the image of Jesus, and shall be adorned with all 
the glory which infinite skill can compass, or Omnipotence 
create; so also shall their residence, freed from the curse, ap- 
pear in all the splendor commensurate with its citizens and 
king. As the throne of the Son of Mary will shine with all 
the splendors of Deity; as it will be the supreme expression of 
all the concentrated excellence with which matter can be 
clothed by Jehovah's limitless resources and power, so this 
poor blood-stained globe will shine, wrapped in the uncreated 
blaze of God's robe of royalty; so it will be filled with eternal 
music and delight; so it will be holy, holy, holy to the Lord 
God of hosts; so it will be an eternal honor to the Captain of 
our salvation. When the serpent's head is bruised, when the 
curse shall tly from earth and hover forever over the lost, in 



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the night of their woe, may you and I, dear reader, have a 
shelter beneath the jasper skies and trees of life, beside the 
living streams of joy. Then from our central home, upon Je- 
hovah's wing, be it ours to visit every home of angels, and 
know in person every creature of his love, in every world of 
his own universe, and pass eternity delightfully! This regen- 
eration of the globe completes the victory foretold to the ser- 
pent; it is the ''kingdom come on earth, as it is in heaven." 

In those times what shall limit the privileges of God's peo- 
ple? Shall they not take the swift flying chariots of Jehovah, 
that have brought angelic spirits and redeemed souls (Moses 
and Elijah, and others) to our world and carried them away 
again. Shall they not, I ask, be privileged those lightning 
trains, and visit worlds basking in all the loveliness that God's 
perfection of beauty can bestow. It is not too wild a flight of 
imagination to say you will call some day at those beautiful 
worlds and enquire, 

" Stopped here the good Enoch on his way, 
Called here Elijah in his flaming car." 

It is not saying too much to say you will some time walk the 
flowery fields and beautiful groves of lovely Venus; quaff the 
limpid waters of her youth-giving fountains, or stand beneath 
Saturn's majestic rings and behold the grandeur of her evening 
skies, with her eight moons and luminary belts. 

It may seem chimerical to some of the scientists of our day to 
talk about traveling away from our planet, but two have trav- 
eled the route before us, Enoch and Elijah, and their transla- 
tion is the pledge, proof, and pattern of ours. About 1,900 
years ago they paid us a visit, and talked awhile with Jesus on 
the Mount of Transfiguration; spoke of his decease which he 
should accomplish at Jerusalem, finished their mission and re- 
turned to their bright home. They will doubtless never visi t 
us again until Christ comes in his kingdom. Poor old Elisha 
saw Elijah when he jumped aboard of the fiery train and rode 



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away, and with outstretched arms and anxious heart he cried 
after him, but alas, his time had not then come for the glori- 
ous flight. 

Extravagant language, do you say? Imagination can not 
plume her wing for too high a flight or too broad a sweep when 
God's plans and promises are her pursuit. 

God grant, my dear reader, that we may be counted 
among God's worthy people who shall one day drop sorrow, 
care, death and age, and in perennial youth soar to the bright 
worlds above and around us. 

Then go, Christian, go! and with the angels 
•* Wing thy flight from star to star," 
" From world to luminous world as far" 
Taste " all the pleasures of all the spheres," 
Enjoy "them through endless years;" 
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